All ways of expressing ourselves are good if they make us understood. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet

Pensées [Thoughts], 1805 (1850 ed.) [tr. Auster (1983)]
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Analog not found in standard translations of the Pensees.