George Orwell

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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.

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slowtyper237 1 year, 5 months ago
Like mark twain once said, “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

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