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Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
— John Dryden
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The description pairs extraordinary wit with a child's innocence. Its compressed parallel structure makes intelligence and unworldliness coexist in the same person, rather than cancel each other out. The praise depends on that contrast, presenting a sharp mind alongside a quality of simplicity and apparent guilelessness.
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