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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Paraded
Pedantry
Knowledge

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Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.
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If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.
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