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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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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Other Quotes from
Brevity
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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

If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. – Lord Sandwich

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Brevity

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Brevity

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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Brevity

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Being in the studio is a really romantic time. – Alison Krauss

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Romantic

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. – Marcel Proust

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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. – Scott Adams

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Future

Focus on your music and not technology. – Bryan Adams

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Technology