Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Quoting a college tutor

James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 30 April 1773


Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.