Confucius
Philosopher
"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
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Pedants
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."
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"I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life."
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"He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant."
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"A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable."
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