“ ‘If you’ve got to get rid of your excess verbiage
(если тебе необходимо избавиться от избыточных фраз;“ ‘If you’ve got to get rid of your excess verbiage,’ says I, ‘why not go out on the river bank and speak a piece? It seems to me there was an old spell-binder named Cantharides that used to go and disincorporate himself of his windy numbers along the seashore.’