Short Story
Usually, by the time a person says, “Well, to make a long story short,” it’s too late.
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Sunbeams
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
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Three Words
Former president Calvin Coolidge was known as a man of few words. Once, at a White House dinner, a woman approached Coolidge and said, “Mr. President, I have a bet with a friend that I can get you to say at least three words.” Coolidge looked at her and said, “You lose.”
Quoted in MBI’s Today In The Word, November, 1989, p. 39