For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible." in the context of "Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature and The Art of Controversy, Digireads.com Publishing, 1 January 2010, p. 13" to mean that wisdom is timeless.