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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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Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. – William Shakespeare

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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon

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If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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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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