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Wonderful Burns’ epigram in Marshak’s translation:

“No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume.” — The Boston Globe A friend recommended a book to read, “The Elements of Style” by W. Strunk. It resonated with me strongly, here are a couple of quotes: Vigorous writing is concise. 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.