Recently had a conversation with my brother, on the importance of brevity in writing, which is when I recalled this masterpiece:-

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. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

Which book did I pick this from? check my post-slug for clues.

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