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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three Im under the table,
After four Im under my host! – Dorothy Parker

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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. – Rabelais, Pantagruel

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Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. – William Shakespeare

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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