Precision often annoys people

Lawyers often get taken to task for our attention to detail and our precision with words. It's occasionally very vexing: nobody complains when a surgeon puts the knife in exactly the right spot, or feels hard done by when their contractor's woodwork meets just where it should. However, a lawyer often seems taken to task for getting our words Just So; it's seen as, well, sharp in the unpleasant sense of the word. You take the bad with the good in a job like this, but it's always a little comforting when somebody "gets it" so it was fun to come across this quote:

“It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.”

Baltasar Gracian