#irritated

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

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My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was. ↗

— GG Allin

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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

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I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside. ↗

— Steig Larsson

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