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Boiling Over Quotes

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

Victor Hugo
Tears, Boiling Over, Accepting
Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James
Experience, Boiling Over, Way
William James (2008). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Pearl S. Buck
Ideas, United States, Boiling Over

After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Thinking, Boiling Over, Answers
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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