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

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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. – William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

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

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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. – Author Unknown

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The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You cant just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you dont know them. Its the same thing with a relationship. – Leighton Meester

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