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Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

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Holbrook Jackson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1874
Born: December 31
Died: 1948
Died: June 16
Journalist
Literary Critic
City of Liverpool
George Holbrook Jackson
Knowledge
Dotage
Pedantry
Scholarship

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