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pedantry

«Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.»
«A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.»
«Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.»
«'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time»
«This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put»