• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

  Walter Savage Landor
  British poet 1775-1864
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understanding
2. perspicacity
3. although
4. judgment
5. improve
6. clear

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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. by : Walter Savage Landor

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