Quote#Speech
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not…
Quote byCharles II of England · 1630–1685
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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).
English (original)
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.
— Charles II of England
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