《论衡·卷三十·自纪篇》
现在你所著的新书，超出了万言，繁琐而不省略，读者没有耐心读完；篇幅太多，注释者不能一一领会。
今所作新书，出万言，繁不省，则读者不能尽；篇非一，则传者不能领。
The new book you are now writing has exceeded ten thousand words, verbose and not concise. Readers will not have the patience to finish reading it. There are too many articles, and the annotators cannot fully understand them.