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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.