“Omit needless words.”
― The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
― The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
― The Elements of Style
― The Elements of Style
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