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«Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: crams, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, pedantry, showiest, showy
«A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw (Critic, Essayist, Playwright) | About: Art, Education | Keywords: digesting, digests, folly, hence, pedantry, philosophy, science, superstition, university
«Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Learning | Keywords: impertinence, pedantry, qualify, sprightlier, sprightly
«'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Appreciation | Keywords: census, estimate, pedantry, square mile, square miles, Times Square
«This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: pedantry
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