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Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
Protagoras
2.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Voltaire
3.
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
Brandon Sanderson
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Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
Rudolf Virchow
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Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Theophile Gautier
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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
Horace
12.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
Stephen King
13.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
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If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
Robert Breault
16.
Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.
Sharon Lee
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It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
Maureen Johnson