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

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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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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey

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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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