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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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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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It wasnt by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. – Ernest Hemingway

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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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