"It was all very well to look pale, sitting for the portrait of Aquinas, you know. . . . But Aquinas, now - he was a little too subtle, wasn't he? Does anybody read Aquinas?"
Mr. Brooke of Edward Casaubon, in George Eliot's Middlemarch, chap. 28. The "subtle doctor" was, of course, Duns Scotus.
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