"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do."
-Dead Poets Society, 1989
Spotted someone quoting this on Tumblr. (I seem to be losing hours on there.) It was a
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