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Quote by Robert Southey
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, th

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

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. – Robert Southey

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Goodbye
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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. – Robert Southey

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Time
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Brevity

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

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Brevity

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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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – William James

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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. – James Agee

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Children

Men will never know the agony of childbirth, menstrual cramps, or removing glitter nail polish. – Author unknown

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Women

In Hollywood, if you dont have happiness, you send out for it. – Rex Reed

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