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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Anger
 
  Anger in our mirth is like poison in a perfume.
            —Joseph Addison		  1
  Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time.
            —Anonymous		  2
  A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic to life.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  3
  Watch against anger; neither speak of it nor act in it; for, like drunkenness, it makes a man a beast, and throws people into desperate inconvenience.
            —William Penn		  4
  Anger is like rain which breaks itself whereon it falls.
            —Seneca		  5
  Anger is like a full-hot horse, who being allowed his way, self-mettle tires him.
            —William Shakespeare		  6
  Angry as a waspe.
            —John Skelton		  7
 
 
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