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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 lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books — what other men do not say in whole books. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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