A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
E. B. WHITEThe main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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