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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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I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French

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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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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. – Rabelais, Pantagruel

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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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Brevity

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