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

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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the worlds shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. – Edward O. Wilson

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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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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. – Rabelais, Pantagruel

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