Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and ...

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

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John Ruskin

English writer and art critic

February 8th, 1819 - January 20th, 1900

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