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> [Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/words-in-prose-ought-to-express-the-intended-meaning-if-they-attract/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> [Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/works-of-imagination-should-be-written-in-very-plain-language-the/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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