Quote#Wisdom
O, 'tis a precious apophthegmatical pedant who will find matter…
Quote byThomas Nashe · 1567–1601
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Have with You to Saffron-Walden (1596).
English (original)
O, 'tis a precious apophthegmatical pedant who will find matter enough to dilate a whole day of the first invention of “Fy, fa, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.”
— Thomas Nashe
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