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Brevity Quotes
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do"
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Thomas Jefferson
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
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Voltaire
"Brevity is the soul of wit. "
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William Shakespeare
"A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a brief"
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Franz Kafka
"He who talks more is sooner exhausted."
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Laozi
"Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive."
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George Washington
"Life is short, the art long"
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Hippocrates
"Honestly, I don't have much to say "
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Lil Wayne
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter"
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Blaise Pascal
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
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George Eliot
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."
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Philip Roth
"The fewer the words, the better the prayer"
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Martin Luther
"One should use common words to say uncommon things"
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The more you say, the less people remember"
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Democritus
"In this short Life that only lasts an hour how much how little is within our power"
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Emily Dickinson
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