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- To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana
- Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome
- Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance
- Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. — A. A. Gill
- Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel
- There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance… — Winston Churchill
- Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent… — Diane Ackerman
- Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion,… — Michel de Montaigne