I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samuel Johnson

Mots clés reading books writing conversation erudition

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Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.

("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")

Algernon Blackwood

Mots clés words language erudition

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Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Broadbent

Mots clés parents children authority erudition vocabulary john-milton

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Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

Ashim Shanker

Mots clés intelligence poetry creativity wit epistemology erudition harvests mind-power wilds-of-the-intellect meddlesome-weed wilt

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