“I know, if anyone does — all research workers know — how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.”

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley, book Trent's Own Case

Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits"

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British writer 1875–1956

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