And Some Want to be More Correct Than the Multiplication Table

“If you will be as dry as sawdust, as devoid of juice as the sole of an old shoe, and as correct as the multiplication table, you shall earn to yourself a high degree in the great university of Droneingen, but if you wake up your soul and adopt an energetic delivery, and a natural, manly, lively, forcible mode of utterance, all the great authorities of that gigantic institution will say, ‘Oh, dear, it is a pity he is so eccentric'” (Spurgeon, Eccentric Preachers, p. 26).