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temper.
His father gave him a bag full of

nails and said to him, “My
son, I want you

to hammer a nail into our garden fence

every
time you need to direct your anger

against something and you
lose your temper

.”
So the son started to follow his father’s

advice.
On the first day he hammered in 37

nails, but getting the nails
into the fence

was not easy, so he started trying to

control
himself when he got angry. As the

days went by, he was hammering
in less

nails, and within weeks he was able to

control
himself and was able to refrain

from getting angry and from
hammering

nails. He came to his father and told him

what
he had achieved. His father was happy

with his efforts and said
to him: “But now,

my son, you have to take out a nail for

every
day that you do not get angry.”
The son started to take out the
nails for

each day that he did not get angry, until

there
were no nails left in the fence.
He came to his father and told him
what he

had achieved. His father took him to the

fence and
said, “My son, you have done

well, but look at these holes in
the fence.

This fence will never be the same again.”

Then
he added: “When you say things in a

state of anger, they leave
marks like these

holes on the hearts of others. You can stab

a
person and withdraw the knife but it

doesn’t matter how many
times you say ‘I’m