A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, also known as Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, is an 1802 autobiographical book written by American businessman Timothy Dexter. The book uses spelling and grammar often considered abysmally bad, and contains almost no punctuation. Dexter was a rich businessman and eccentric, known for gaining his wealth through ill-advised but ultimately lucky investments like sending coals to Newcastle at the time of a miners' strike. The book includes complaints about things such as politicians and the clergy, while Dexter praises his own glory and even says that he should be the emperor of the United States. The second edition is noted for containing pages of punctuation in the appendix, so that the reader, in Dexter’s words, “may peper and solt it as they plese [sic]”
