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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.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
- Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
- Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales
- Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
- Jewish Proverb
- Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
- Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
- William Cecil Burleigh
- Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.
- Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
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