Finding something to say is ordinarily the great problem of all of us who are called upon to write, whether in school or elsewhere. It is not merely that we have nothing to express, for most of us are talking a great part of the time, but that we feel the greater importance of the written word, and do not readily satisfy ourselves that our thoughts and feelings are of sufficient importance to make it worth while putting them down in writing.
-- Lewis Worthington Smith & James E. Thomas, A Modern Composition and Rhetoric 3 (1900-1901).
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