Best practice for saving long text messages?

I'm writing a cook book type program and for the instructions I expect that some of the steps can get quite lengthy. Is it acceptable to store a paragraph in a single string object or is there a better method?
Thanks in advance.

If there's no further structure to it, String sounds fine.

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doom despair and agony on me, deep dark ... you know the rest.
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