I was sometimes quite provoked, but then I recollected my dear Elizabeth and Jane, and for their sakes had patience with her.

有几次我非常生气，但是一记起了亲爱的伊丽莎白和吉英，看她们面上，我还是容忍着她。

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Spinola was duly installed as president after the coup and then provoked into resigning five months later in protest against too rapid a withdrawal from Africa, where Portugal's colonial involvement dated back to 1415.

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"I've never known him to be violent at all unless he was provoked, and then he would turn the other cheek, " Robert Zimmerman testified.

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His father, Robert, said he did not know his son to be violent unless provoked, and even then he was likely to "turn the other cheek".

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