[24]
For in
our passion for words we paraphrase what might be
said in plain language, repeat what we have already
[p. 191]
said at sufficient length, pile up a number of words
where one would suffice, and regard allusion as
better than directness of speech. So, too, all
directness of speech is at a discount, and we think no
phrase eloquent that another could conceivably have
used.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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