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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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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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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Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker

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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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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. – Charles Lindbergh

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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that Im pushing 40, I guess I look closer to… 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I dont have one of those. – Gabriel Mann

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Any agreement that you have isnt going to be based on North Koreas intentions or trust. – Mitchell Reiss

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive. – Ernest Hemingway

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