A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could… — 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.
1849
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Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, edited by Carl F. Hovde and William L. Howarth, and Elizabeth Hall Witherell. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Original citation
Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston/Cambridge: James Munroe and Co., 1849.
