Herman Melville Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891
Birthday: August 1
Death: September 28
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
source: 1853 'Bartleby the Scrivener', in Putnam'sMonthly Magazine, Nov-Dec.
topic: Passive Resistance, Earnest, Persons
