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«Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w»
Author: Francis Quarles
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, cheat, delightful, Plato, recommendation, recommendations, short-lived, short letter, Socrates, Theocritus, Theophrastus
«Anger is only one letter short of danger»
«If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
letter, shorter, short letter, written
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
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Art,
Danger,
Death and dying,
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Life,
Society,
Violence
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Bad art, brutish, continual, letters, nastier, nastiest, nasty, short letter, solitary, violent, violent death
«I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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have-not, letter, longer, make it, shorter, short letter, The Time, usual
«I'm sorry I wrote such a long letter. I did not have the time to write a short one.»
«If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.»
«The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.»
«I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.»
«A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation»
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