If your sentence is original, the chances of another person—even your closest loved one—agreeing with it without the slightest exception is extremely unlikely. Has your second sentence weakened your first? It usually does. If so, make it stronger than the first. When you’ve done that, you now have the option of choosing one or the other sentence. There may be value in combining and condensing them. Finished? Now imagine that you look down and see that the crowd below you is gone. You see only one person, your greatest enemy, who says, “I didn’t hear you. Would you repeat that?”
