Great Quotes: C.S. Lewis on Using the Right Words

Posted in Great Quotes on 11. Oct, 2009

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“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

– C.S. Lewis

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