Who said resentment is like drinking poison

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You, of course, are the one who gets burned. The passage above was a milestone in the evolution of the saying; however, the topic was hatred in general and not resentment. Also, the phrasing was complex and prolix. Americans will remember Pearl Harbor. The British will recall the horror of the blitz. Germans will have the remembrance of bombs that fell from Allied planes.

The victims of brutality will not find it easy to forget or to forgive. In a Texas newspaper advice columnist named Ann Carroll responded to a letter writer who was unhappy with her husband. Carroll employed a precursor remark while warning about dangers of resentment: 5. Understand that resentment is the most potent poison generated in the human body. It causes physical and spiritual wreckage if allowed to boil within. An instance of the saying was included: 7. Being resentful, they say, is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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