The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. - Hippocrates

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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. - Dwight D. Eisenhower quotes