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Quote by George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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