David Simple

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“We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
And they should keep who can.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)