“Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.”

— Jonathan Swift, book A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding

A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

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