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Quote by Sydney Smith
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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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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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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

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“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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