Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson, quoting an old college tutor. Collected in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.
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Stephen Downes said...

This would be advice heeded - if ever - by Boswell only after completing his biography, not before.

November 4, 2009 at 7:22 PM

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