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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Congreve |

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Jerome K Jerome |

Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Unknown |

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Arthur Schopenhauer |