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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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Health
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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
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Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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

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If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. – Dennis Roth

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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. – Francois FeNelon

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

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