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Never be so brief as to become obscure. - Tryon Edwards

Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards

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Exaggeration
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Quotations
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. – Tryon Edwards

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Happiness
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Other Quotes from
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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Brevity

If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Brevity

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

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

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