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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

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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Other Quotes from
Brevity
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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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Brevity

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

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Brevity

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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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

Random Quotes

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange. – Simon Mainwaring

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Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Honesty

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts. – Blanche Lincoln

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Anger

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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