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Show (Bents of tbouobt BREVITY Have something to say; say it, and stop when you've done. Tryon Edwards. iGonuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in J having order and arrangement in I what we say, and in speaking ' with comlposure. Fenelon. When one has no design but to j speak plain truth, he may say a 1 great deal in a very narow com-1 pass. Sir Richard Steele. Our blaster taught his disciples one brief prayer, which we name after him the Lord's Prayer. Mary Baker Eidy. Brevity is the best recomlmen-dation recomlmen-dation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. Cicero. 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 . |