Standards Apply

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“As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)