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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."

From Time Magazine Archive

I know how old woodsmen look at book-learned chaps, Mr. Ide.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

I still had hopes, for pride attends me still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill; Around my fire an evening group to draw And tell of all I felt and all I saw.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell

I have suggested in another chapter that Germany suffers far more from the theoretical and book-learned gentlemen who surround the Emperor than from his indiscretions.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier


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