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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and…
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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames.…
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
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