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George Orwell

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”

George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
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Politics and the English Language Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
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