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Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.
-Thomas B. Macaulay
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Propriety Of Thought And Propriety Of Diction

Thomas B. Macaulay
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.
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You really shouldn’t do that to people," i criticized. "it’s hardly fair." "do what?" "dazzle them like that – she’s probably hyperventilating in the kitchen right now." he seemed confused. "oh come on," i said dubiously. "you have to know the effect you have on people." he tilted his head to one side, and his eyes were curious. "i dazzle people?" "you haven’t noticed? do you think everybody gets their way so easily?" he ignored my questions. "do i dazzle you?" "frequently," i admitted.
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. the second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. the third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.
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