I never answer when I can help it. When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word- just to look at them and think. Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it, Miss Amelia looks frightened, and so do the girls. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn’t said afterward. There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in- that’s stronger. It’s a good thing not to answer you enemies. I scarcely ever do.
– A Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett (via thechocolatebrigade)
I never answer when I can help it. When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word- just to look at them and think. Miss Minchin turns pale with rage when I do it, Miss Amelia looks frightened, and so do the girls. When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn’t said afterward. There’s nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in- that’s stronger. It’s a good thing not to answer you enemies. I scarcely ever do.
– A Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett (via thechocolatebrigade)
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