ᐅ The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. – Richard Whately | QuotesTrue.com

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The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Richard Whately

Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.300

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