Quote#Death
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin…
Quote byGertrude Stein · 1874–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Making of Americans (1925).
English (original)
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.
— Gertrude Stein
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