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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.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- Robert Southey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Brevity · anthology attribution: Southey
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