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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Courage
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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Brevity

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. – Dennis Roth

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Brevity

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. – William Shakespeare

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Brevity

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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Brevity

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If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, How do we get one of those? and she was like, You cant get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool? – Miley Cyrus

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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. – Ken Harrelson

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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. – Barbara Kruger

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