Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Rules and Fools
Henry David Thoreau, Journals (February 3, 1860):
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, -- as that a sentence must never end with a particle, -- and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think --Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.