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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with su

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

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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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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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“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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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. – Vladimir Lenin

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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. – Tammy Wynette

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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. – Helen Keller

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Im learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but thats how it is. Im really learning to function out there and in such a way that I dont need to drink. – Dana Plato

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