please edit this Strunk quote

[Dana]

posted: “Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.”

edit last part to: "...you will have a bad time with Reminder 14".

[Dana]

Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Dana wrote: "Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot..."

Unfortunately you have linked to all Strunk's quotes - & when I put a search in I couldn't find it. Could you link to the exact quote please?

[Dana]

Phew that was tricky to figure out but I think I got it: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1657...

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Dana wrote: "Phew that was tricky to figure out but I think I got it: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1657..."

Corrected. Please allow at least 40 minutes for this to display, but it has been done.

Does this quote come from a book? Do you know the name of it?