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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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The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou

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Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – 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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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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If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. – Author Unknown

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