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Brevity

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

Blaise Pascal

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

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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.

David Belasco

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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.

Lord Sandwich

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