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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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If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. – Dennis Roth

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Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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