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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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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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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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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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“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 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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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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