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"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."
- Orwell, George

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22409/">To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5485/">Orwell, George</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/language/">Language</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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