I am fully aware that my not being a man of letters may cause certain presumptuous people to think that they may with reason blame me, alleging that I am a man without learning. Foolish folk! distraught about puffed up and pompous, decked out and adorned not with their own labours, but by those of others. they will say that because I have no book learning I can't properly express what I desire to describe- but they do not know that my subjects require experience rather than the words of others.
