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“Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f606d546e88aa94553a017212323c58bcb8250e9436e48f249e6e484beb49e2a
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