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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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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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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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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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Humankind
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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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It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway

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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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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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