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Quote by Francois Fenelon
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, t

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon

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A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. – Francois Fenelon

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respect
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Francois Fenelon
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. – Francois Fenelon

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Happiness
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Francois Fenelon
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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. – Francois Fenelon

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best
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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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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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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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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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He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion. – Bhagavad Gita

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Silence is the mother of truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. – Jon Secada

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