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

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

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

I’m not abnegation, I’m not dauntless, I am Divergent