Good writing should be smooth, clear and short, and the art of saying little in much must be avoided at all costs. In written discourse, every needless thing gives offense and must be eliminated. . . .Had this always been done, many large and tiresome volumes would have shrunk into pamphlets, and many pamphlet into a single period.

– Benjamin Franklin

Fleming, Candace. Ben Franklin’s Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman’s Life. United Kingdom, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014. pp23