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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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