"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

Clarity, End, Ostentation, Speech, Words

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"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

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"When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty - what difference does it make what your decisions are?"

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"If you can say it... it's obvious."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

William Strunk, Jr., American Writer

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"Where there is darkness, there is chaos and confusion, but when light shines, things are set in order and the light rules and governs."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You get a clearer picture of what your life should be like in the place of solitude."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"They have a right to censure that have a heart to help."

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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

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"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform."

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"Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire."

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"Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel."

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"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

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"We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that."

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"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

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"O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand."

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"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

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