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And so there commenced a long and ludicrous controversy—dishonourable to Settle much; to Rochester and Dryden more—between a mere insolent twaddler and a man of real and transcendent genius.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John

If you mix me up with that mawkish theoretical twaddler you simply prove that you know nothing of my manuscript, though it has been in your hands.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

The Regent was continually importuned about it; but all in vain, until the Duke de St. Simon, who, with all his ability, was something of a twaddler, undertook the weighty business.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Mackay, Charles

Sah-luma! twaddler Sah-luma! what a brain box is thine!

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

Every teacher or twaddler who denies it or suppresses it, is an enemy of life.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard