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wiseacre Noun a person who wishes to seem wise [Middle Dutch wijsseggher soothsayer]
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Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. |
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