https://padlet.com/rvc8766/3hf5vlxlio9w2ml8 en-us 2021-03-14 23:15:32 UTC 2023-10-20 15:18:02 UTC hello@padlet.com rvc8766 https://padlet.com/rvc8766/3hf5vlxlio9w2ml8/wish/1308277589 "Write a sentence as clean as a bone"]]> 2021-03-14 23:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rvc8766/3hf5vlxlio9w2ml8/wish/1308277589 rvc8766 https://padlet.com/rvc8766/3hf5vlxlio9w2ml8/wish/1308279483  “Good prose is like a windowpane.” A reader should notice the words no more than someone looking through glass notices the glass.

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