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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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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – 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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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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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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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the worlds shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. – Edward O. Wilson

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

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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones tongue dont move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole

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