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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons. . . Good writing means good revising.

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. . . when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

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To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

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None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

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