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Letter "P" » pedantry
«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»
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