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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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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. – William Shakespeare

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

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