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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Marcus Tulius Cicero

PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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Marcus Tulius Cicero

PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.0 · 45 votes

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Good things, when short, are twice as good.

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Baltasar Gracián

WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

4.0 · 25 votes · 147 reads

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

3.5 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

3.2 · 62 votes

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It 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.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

4.7 · 34 votes

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It 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.

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Ernest Hemingway

WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

5.0 · 40 votes

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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

4.4 · 39 votes

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

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PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

4.7 · 54 votes · 128 reads

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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings
ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century
4.3 · 7 votes · 184 reads
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