Mon, 14 Jan 2008

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The founders' English

It's a delight to read Jefferson and the other founders, especially if you're giving them a close study. You can trust them to express complete well-turned thoughts in each sentence, making unnecessary the modern work of hunting through the clauses to put thoughts back together and extract some sense from them.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey

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