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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. - Hosea Bal

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. – Hosea Ballou

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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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It wasnt 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. – Ernest Hemingway

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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. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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