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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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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. – Robert Southey

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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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

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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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Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. – Author Unknown

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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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