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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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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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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

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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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