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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unn

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. – William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

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