What does “wear one's learning lightly” mean? Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to k

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What does “wear one's learning lightly” mean? Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. What does “wear one's learning lightly” mean?

13 ต.ค. 2014 เวลา 13:06

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I'm pleased to see that you've corrected your question, Ton. And as Michael explained to you earlier today, it means that the learned person behaves in a modest, unpretentious manner and doesn't 'show off' about how much they know.

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