When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.


Winter: from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (ed. 1887)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.