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Henry Watson Fowler & Francis George Fowler

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

Henry Watson Fowler & Francis George Fowler, The King’s English, Oxford, 1931, p. 11

Henry Watson Fowler

What is to be deprecated is the notion that one can improve one’s style by using stylish words, or that important occasions necessarily demand important words.

Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1965, p. 717