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Quotation from Rhetoric by Aristotle
“Style to be good must be clear”
Rhetoric, Book III, Ch. 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924)
The first principle of Aristotle's account of style: speech that does not make its meaning plain fails at its task.
Citation: "Style to be good must be clear" — Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book III, Ch. 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts (1924). (id aristotle-rhetoric-q11)
