"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."

Ballou, Hosea on Brevity
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Billings, Josh on Brevity
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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Brevity
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"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Brevity
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"Never be so brief as to become obscure."

Edwards, Tryon on Brevity
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"The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit."

FeNelon, Francois on Brevity
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"Good things, when short, are twice as good."

Gracian, Baltasar on Brevity
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"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics."

Hemingway, Ernest on Brevity
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"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."

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

Jefferson, Thomas on Brevity
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"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on Brevity
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"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."

Luther, Martin on Brevity
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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Brevity
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"Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes."

Shakespeare, William on Brevity
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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

Southey, Robert on Brevity
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"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down."

Wilson, Edward O. on Brevity
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