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Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

— Barrett Wendell English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute (1891)

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Quoted in: Arthur Parker Stone and Stewart Lee Garrison, Essentials of Argument (1916), p. 195; Porter Gale Perrin, An Index to English: A Handbook of Current Usage and Style (1939), p. 537

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