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Learned Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
- Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least…
- No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in…
- It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages…
- The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided…
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