Hosea Ballou's Quote - Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Bal

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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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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. – Hosea Ballou

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. – Hosea Ballou

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. – Hosea Ballou

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“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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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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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterdays triumphant Cause. – Phyllis McGinley

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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. Theres immense happiness that can come from working towards that. – Nick Cave

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