Jefferson Method

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    Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)