Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.