Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
  

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Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.
Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself
To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.