29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.(A)
21 As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.(A)
22 One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression.(A)
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