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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. – Dorothy Parker

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

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

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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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Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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