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Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, soul

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about charm

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in...

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, common sense, sense, things, time

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