A Quote by Pliny the Younger
In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.
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Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.
The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.
People that are that good at motivating and inspiring are rare. In many cases, you wish it was parents, and in many cases it is, but in a lot of cases it happens outside the family as well - or, in some cases, only.
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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