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If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation…

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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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I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing… — Honus Wagner
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes
I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one. — George Bernard Shaw
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future… — Clifford D. Simak
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across… — Hart Crane
Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. — Isabel Paterson
A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing… — William Strunk, Jr.
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction — Tao Lin

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