Quotes with brevity

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• Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

  Hosea Ballou
  American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Brevity is the body and soul of wit.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

  Dorothy Parker
  American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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• Brevity is the soul of wit.

  Hamlet (1600)

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

  William Zinsser
  American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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• Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

  Antonio Porchia
  Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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• This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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• What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity, and wit its soul.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• recommendation
• correction
• simplicity
• meaningful
• adventures
• humanity

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