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“But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks ...”
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”