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The Pedantry of the Poets

" pedantry is the too frequent or unseasonable of truding Our own knowledge in common discourse and placing too great a value upon it," he writes. "It's as guilty of pedantry as a philosopher or a divine And it is the same vice in women when they are over copious upon the subject of their pedicodes Or their fans or their china" He adds: 'I only quarrel when in select and private meetings where men of wit and learning are invited to pass an evening this jester should be admitted'

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