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That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most kn

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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Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

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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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