* "The Art of Writing Less and Saying Basically The Same Thing [sic - that's not even a complete sentence]"
* "Don't say anything more than you need to / Revision 1: Don't say more than needed / Revision 2: Say only what's needed"
* "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter"
* "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
* "When revising, pretend to be your own worst enemy. Is there anything that can be misunderstood? If so, change it so that it can’t!"
I'm confused about whether the author read this advice and chose to ignore it by repeating it 6 (or, 5 times, and alluded to it with a sentence fragment), or whether this is some self-aware-meta-I-know-the-rules-but-I'm-ignoring them, or what's going on here.