Karl II.
said
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
— To the Earl of Manchester, as quoted in the notes to Hudibras (1674), Part 1, Canto 1, by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (1859)
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