Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719
Birthday: May 1
Death: June 17
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.
topic: Silly, Opportunity, Men, Insufferable, Pedantry, Silly Man, Impertinence