“And if they want hard words, they run over some worm-eaten manuscript and pick out half a dozen of the most old and obsolete to confound their reader, believing, no doubt, that they that understand their meaning will like it the better, and they that do not will admire it” from “In Praise of Folly (Dover Thrift Editions)” by Desiderius Erasmus, John Wilson

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