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They knew him tenacious, able; no mere theorist.
2
The author is not a mere theorist.
3
To do that I have been at some pains, and yet I am still a mere theorist.
4
But to loot a pair of breeches from a frozen corpse is not so easy as it may appear to a mere theorist.
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Mere theorists, my good lord; and their opinions, even if true, are never practised on.
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In active life, however, no men could be more perfectly free from the faults of mere theorists and pedants.
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Defenders of free trade, we are accused of being mere theorists, of not giving sufficient weight to the practical.