The learned often stumble at this stone; they will always be parading … — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

The learned often stumble at this stone; they will always be parading their pedantic science, and strew their books everywhere; they have, in these days, so filled the cabinets and ears of the ladies with them, that if they have lost the substance, they at least retain the words; so as in all discourse upon all sorts of subjects, how mean and common soever, they speak and write after a new and learned way,

Lugar: CHAPTER III · ¶3827
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