A soft answer turneth away wrath

"But," said Prissy, "perhaps you forgot that a soft answer turneth away wrath?"

"And remember that a soft answer turneth away wrath."

Let us remember, "that a soft answer turneth away wrath," and that the "beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water,"—we cannot tell where it will stop.

"A soft answer turneth away wrath," and a generous confession oftentimes more than atones for the fault which requires it.

Even when Brenda and Belle most annoyed her, she hesitated to say sharp things to them, remembering that "A soft answer turneth away wrath."