atque utinam hic nil molle, nil fluidum, nil de triviis compitalibus mutuatum reperiretur! siquidem maturo, ut es ipse, lectori non tantum dictio exossis tenera delumbis, quantum vetuscula torosa et quasi mascula placet.
I only wish that nothing relaxing, nothing flaccid were to be found in my work, and nothing borrowed from the street corner; for a reader of your experience does not care for a spineless, soft emasculate style: what attracts him is a diction somewhat old-fashioned, a diction muscular and what one might call virile.
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