Words at Play : Favorite Quotations About Words, Vol. 2

#7: Too Big

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very;' otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

– C.S. Lewis in Letters to Children

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