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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.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
Many blunder
in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt
new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also,
because the thought which should be trained on big things is
cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.
-- Philip Delaney
Exactness and
neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes
narrows the mind.
-- Francois FéNelon
1651-1715, French Writer
While I am
busy with little things, I am not required to do greater
things.
-- St. Francis De Sales
1567-1622, Roman Catholic
Bishop, Writer
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