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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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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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

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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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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon

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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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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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