Sydney Grammar

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“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)

“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)