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user-inactivated · 3518 days ago · link · · parent · post: 6th Bi- or Tri-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately
You can't go ten pages in almost any book written in the 19th century about anything without finding prose that could make spectacular verse. Something's got kaput in our education system if they taught everyone (except most women! and blacks! and poor people!) to write better in 1814 than they do two hundred years later.