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Martin Luther quotesThe fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Marcus Tulius Cicero quotesBrevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tulius Cicero quotesBrevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Ernest Hemingway quotesIt wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Thomas Jefferson quotesThe most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Horace quotesI strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Josh Billings quotesThere's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
William Shakespeare quotesBrevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotesIt is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.
Friedrich Nietzsche quotesIt is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.