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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

The curse of knowledge means that we’re more likely to overestimate the average reader’s familiarity with our little world than to underestimate it. And in any case one should not confuse clarity with condescension.

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