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G.K. Chesterton

“If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Syme, staring.
"The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.”

G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
tags: anger, calm, composure
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