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H W Fowler: Direct, simple, brief, vigorous and lucid

“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.”

—-H.W. Fowler.


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