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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Walter Savage Landor
Writing, Profound, Looks
'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.