A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754) - Swift, Jonathan

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

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English writer and churchman
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding (1754)

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