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6 quotesMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
Vocabulary
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
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Winston Churchill
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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Clifton Fadiman
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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun