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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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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Courage
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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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Letters
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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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Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. – Author Unknown

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Brevity

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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Brevity

Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. – Thomas Paine (1737–1809), Rights of Man

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I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – thats a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. – Christina Aguilera

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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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Ill tell you, in my life Ive never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values – faith, family, hard work, responsibility. – Ted Cruz

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