If you would be pungent, be brief.
"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" edited by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.
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