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

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

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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strength
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To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate anothers grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. – Tryon Edwards

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Contentment
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

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Education
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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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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Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

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