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"It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Precision, Language, Meaning, Economy

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"It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number."

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