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simplicity |
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simplicity noun 1. straightforwardness, ease, clarity, obviousness, easiness, clearness, absence of complications, elementariness << OPPOSITE complexity noun 2. plainness, restraint, purity, clean lines, naturalness, lack of adornment << OPPOSITE elaborateness Translations (of dress) → Schlichtheit f |
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I will not destroy its simplicity or its significance by any attempt to quote. Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it, as for them, is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. |
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