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.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Walter Savage Landor, (Jan 30 1775-1864), English poet, essayist; He is noted for his principal prose Imaginary Conversations, 1824-53.