To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)


To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.