Might he simply be noting that too often heated words and perhaps an
excessive conscience may come back to haunt one?

on 10/1/08 4:02 PM, Justine Roberts at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> "It is by the goodness of God that in our
> country we have those three unspeakable precious things: freedom
> of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to
> practice either of them"

--
Linwood Cottage, Sheffield

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the
average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
-- Mark Twain's Notebook