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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. — Matthew Arnold

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

Matthew Arnold
1903
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Writing
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Writing advice
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1903
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Matthew Arnold
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Arnold, Matthew. Quoted in Collections and Recollections, written by G. W. E. Russell. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898, ch. 14. Originally stated to Russell by Arnold c. 1890.

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