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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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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. – Sydney Smith

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

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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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Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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