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Calling me a scumbag is a personal attack and just shows your useless pettifoggery towards me.— Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Honestly I'm really not trying to engage you in pettifoggery for fun.— Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Amid his atmosphere of pettifoggery, this rudimentary scholar, waging battle on life's acerbities, certainly paid no attention to the insect; at most, if he met it, he would crush it under foot.— The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings?— What is Property?
What a pity he should be tied down to paltry pettifoggery! "— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

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