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Writing 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.
- Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
- 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…
- Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
- Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
- Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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