“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.”
Solomon connects two things here that we often treat as separate: wisdom and anger. A man of good sense is slow to anger — not because he feels less, but because he understands more. He has thought further down the chain of consequences.
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