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

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I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

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It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway

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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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