Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. --C.S. Lewis
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~ The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. ~
Bernard M. Baruch
"Brevity, said Lord Bacon, is the soul of wit, and conciseness is a virtue I have always admired.
The magic of poetry lies in its power to compress ideas or emotions into a mere handful of words.
But prose can work the same spell, which is why Francis Bacon's aphorism has survived the centuries."
--Arthur C. Clarke,
"Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds"
(St. Martin's, 1999)
