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“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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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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I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

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