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

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

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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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