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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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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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