"Why need I volumes, if one word..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
“No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”