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If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shorten

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

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“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. – Rabelais, Pantagruel

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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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