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William Strunk, Jr. has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
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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…
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts…
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.
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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey…
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Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear
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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet…
— Phineas Fletcher
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Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields…
— William Wordsworth
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There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the…
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer…
— William Shakespeare
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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the…
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As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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