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“You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.”

— Rufus Choate

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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