Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. ✨ E.…

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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.191, Cornell University Press
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