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-" Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of 
+“ Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of 
 prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no 
 such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner 
 should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is 
 approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away 
 from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all 
 mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of 
-plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity."  
+plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.”  
  
---Strunk and White, " The Elements of Style"  
+--Strunk and White, “ The Elements of Style”  
  
 //And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 
 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of 
 [[Help:WabiSabi|Wabi Sabi]// 

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“Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style--all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.”

--Strunk and White, “The Elements of Style”

And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of Wabi Sabi

--scummings

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