Thursday, September 27, 2018

Quote of the Day (Robert Southey, on the Value of Brevity)


“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."—English Romantic poet Robert Southey (1774-1843), quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards (1908)

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