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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make thre

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

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Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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

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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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