"If you consider that the constant tenor of the gospel precepts is to promote love, peace, good-will among men you will not doubt that the cultivation of an amiable disposition is a great part your religious duty; since nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow creatures, than the indulgence of an ill-temper."
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Hester Chapone in:Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Cambridge University Press, 21 November 2013, p. 120.
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