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BUT Sometimes it is found to result from the fault of previous anger,
or to spring from the desire of some gain which has not been realized, when
a man has found that he has failed in his hope of securing those things
which he had planned. But sometimes without any apparent reason for our
being driven to fall into this misfortune, we are by the instigation of our
crafty enemy suddenly depressed with so great a gloom that we cannot
receive with ordinary civility the visits of those who are near and dear to
us; and whatever subject of conversation is started by them, we regard it
as ill-timed and out of place; and we can give them no civil answer, as the
gall of bitterness is in possession of every corner of our heart.
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