When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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