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Joseph Joubert
: Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Obscurity brings safety.
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Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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