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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) – Dorothy Parker

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Parties
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Dorothy Parker
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. – Dorothy Parker

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

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Brevity

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

“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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Brevity

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I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. – Angelina Jolie

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I think its a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts. – Jeff Daniels

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