Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. - Author Unkn

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. – Author Unknown

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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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If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure. – Lord Sandwich

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. – Horace

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