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<li>[she] exactly! Short sweet and to the point: well said.</li>
<li>Absolutely…with the caveat that they do not designate themselves as intellectuals or use the boorish designation to stifle those they consider beneath their great state and booming brains (as was done to Shakespeare, amongst others).</li>
<li>Plenty of wonderful people in and out of the academy do not self-identify as intellectualsI admire that. </li>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>You’ve obviously never read the works of Edgar Guest.</p>
<p>FS_ nice that you can go back in time and know exactly what Shakespeare thought, wow, I wish I had that power</p>
<p>And blowhards come in all shapes and sizes, if you think that only the learned are blowhards, you need to get out into the real world</p>
<p>So, there are no blowhards who never open a book, no blowhards who rant and rave without having any facts</p>
<p>And the only blowhards are the ones with an education from elite schools</p>
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<p>No, its just that the Intellectuals–not the learned (whered that come from?)–blow harder and with such feigned eloquence they often appear to believe theyve composed a petite symphony while really doing no more than an intellectual burlesque you know, as opposed to those who simply toot away on their own horns before tucking it in for a good nights sleep.</p>
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I dont claim to be a Shakespearean scholar–Im not, I just love reading him and reading about him–but I presented the facts to back up what I said the intellectuals of Shakespeares dayGreene, Nash, the Oxbrige-posseused their intellects ad nauseum to relentlessly demean, bully and lord it over Shakespeare to the degree that they could. If you have facts to counter what I posted, present them. Otherwise </p>
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