Sentence

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    A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)

    Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)