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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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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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Brevity

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth. – Erwin Chargaff, Columbia Forum, Summer 1969

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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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