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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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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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The fewer the words, the better the prayer. – Martin Luther

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