I was sitting at dinner with Grandpa P sometime last year and we were on the topic of eloquence in old literature. There was art in poetic overcommunication. In Great Expectations, Dickens wrote “she was to be guarded from the acquisition of plebeian domestic knowledge”, which is basically just saying keep her away from general info. Anyways, the quote that is the title up above was somehow mentioned and has sat in my notes since, which I am only recently getting around to finding a solution ...