• 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
  British writer 1774-1843
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. condensed
2. deeper
3. words

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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. by : Robert Southey

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