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Quote by William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward

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

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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. – William Shakespeare

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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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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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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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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