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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow…
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use…
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is…
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...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town…
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Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying…
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What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a…
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It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance,…
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
— Horace
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity…
— Eduard Suess
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Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above…
— Michel de Montaigne
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My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
— William Zinsser
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He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness…
— Bertrand Russell
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What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly.…
— Mark Twain
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