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But never, in all this history of feuds and charley-horses, have these two famous universities been driven apart by such puerilities as those which caused the decision of the Princeton Board.

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Reid's work, he concedes, has "puerilities and longueurs."

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It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy.

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Others question this, declaring that it is only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's.

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In the second stanza the Bard is well described; but in the third we have the puerilities of obsolete mythology.

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert