Samuel Johnson Quotes on Clarity
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Round numbers are always false.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.