“ one feels so full of intelligence and so decidedly superior to one's dull relations and schoolmates ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872). copy citation
| Author | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
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| Source | The Poet at the Breakfast-Table |
| Topic | intelligence feeling |
| Date | 1872 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2666/2666-h/2666-h.htm |
Context
“but nobody except editors and school-teachers and here and there a literary than knows how common is the capacity of rhyming and prattling in readable prose, especially among young women of a certain degree of education. In my character of Pontiff, I should tell these young persons that most of them labored under a delusion. It is very hard to believe it; one feels so full of intelligence and so decidedly superior to one's dull relations and schoolmates; one writes so easily and the lines sound so prettily to one's self; there are such felicities of expression, just like those we hear quoted from the great poets; and besides one has been told by so many friends that all one had to do was to print and be famous!”
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