Found myself not five minutes ago, reading a book (The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment) which begins with a lengthy discussion of how to compose a sentence.
That Socrates was onto something.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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