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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Category: Brevity Author: Robert Southey
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Category: Brevity Author: Baltasar Gracian
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.
Category: Brevity Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
Category: Brevity Author: William Shakespeare Source: Hamlet
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Category: Brevity Author: Thomas Jefferson
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
Category: Brevity Author: William Strunk
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If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Category: Brevity Author: Dennis Roth
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Category: Brevity Author: Blaise Pascal
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Category: Brevity Author: Sydney Smith
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If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
Category: Brevity Author: Lord Sandwich
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Category: Brevity Author: Dorothy Parker
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
Category: Brevity Author: David Belasco
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