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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

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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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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes. – William Shakespeare

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