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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
 
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
 
Good example is half a sermon.
 
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
 
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
 
In my silence only my voice is missing.
 
Blessed is the man, who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
 
METAPHOR: A way of holding the most truth in the least space.
 
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
 
Keep your words sweet-you may have to eat them.
 
There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
 
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
 
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
 
There are only two types of speakers in the world, the nervous and the liar.
 
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