Here’s an example of a beautiful long sentence that couldn’t have said what it said if it had said it shortly:
[A great author] writes passionately, because he feels keenly; forcibly, because he conceives vividly; he sees too clearly to be vague; he is too serious to be otiose; he can analyze his subject, and therefore [...]
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