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Writing Quotes by Quintilian
- Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
- Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
- One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
- We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand…
- From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
- Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it…
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