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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

Other quotes by Dorothy Parker

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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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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Toasts
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Dorothy Parker
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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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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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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

Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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