This section is from the book "The Science And Art Of Phrase-Making", by David Wolfe Brown. Also available from Amazon: The science and art of phrase-making.
14 1/2. It should not be forgotten that, apart from the question of speed, good phrases conduce to legibility; and this they do in spite of the fact that in a phrase the accustomed positions of word-outlines, and even word-signs, are often lost; that ordinary word-forms are often varied; and that, but for the illumination of context, outlines would often be ambiguous. Most emphatically it is true that "in a phrase, words are so related that one helps to read another."
 
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