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C.S. Lewis, Letters to Children Quotes: Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
         

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.


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