A sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. (Henry David Thoreau)

A sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau

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