Not to Overstate

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Over the Top

“When you overstate, the reader will be instantly on guard, and everything that has preceded your overstatement as well as everything that follows it will be suspect in his mind because he has lost confidence in your judgment or your poise.”

—E.B. White (1899-1985), writer and author, in Strunk & White, “An Approach to Style,” The Elements of Style, 3^rd edition, 1979.

• Editorial Comment: Anyone remember the boy who cried “Wolf!”?

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