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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:…

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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…

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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but… — Annie Besant
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please — Amerigo Vespucci
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill
The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on… — Ruben Dario
Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants… — Rodrigue Tremblay
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached. — William Shakespeare
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner
As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous… — T.E. Lawrence
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children… — Henry George
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary — Carl Jung

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