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Word Quotes by Joseph Joubert
- Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
- Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
- Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a…
- Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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