"None are so fallible as those who are…" — William Strunk, Jr.
"None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right."
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28 Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.
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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This…
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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…
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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…
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he…
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned…
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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
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Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to…
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as…
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization…
— George Washington
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will…
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The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender…
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Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.
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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
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