The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George Orwell

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George Orwell: "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

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Aims	Clear	Cuttlefish	Declared
Enemy	Exhausted	Great	Idioms
Insincerity	Instinctively	Language	Long
Ones	Real	Squirting	Turns
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