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A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public
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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
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"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot, 1879
— George Eliot, 1879
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In the earlier parts of the book Swift has shown where man’s folly and scoundrelism lead him: but take away the folly and the scoundrelism, and all you are left with, apparently, is a tepid sort of existence, hardly worth leading.
George Orwell • All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl
#084 ✰ are you an essentialist?
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men - Roald Dahl