If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as… - Robert Southey

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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

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Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

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[T]hough reason is not to be relied upon, as a guide universally sufficient to direct us what to do; yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed, where it tells us what we are not to do.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

How little do they see what is, who frame
Their hasty judgement upon that which seems!

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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