Hippocrates
Physician
"The chief virtue that language can have is clarity."
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Plain Language
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart."
Hippocrates
Physician
"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"When you catch an adjective, kill it."
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"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
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