Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.