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The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. – Alfred Bougeart, quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedn

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I can tell thee where that saying was born… – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night [I, 5, Maria]

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It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. – Rupert Hart-Davis

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