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Sydney Smith: Brevity is in writing what charity is to all the other virtues. Righteousness…

Brevity is in writing what charity is to all the other virtues. Righteousness is worth nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.

In today’s wordsBrevity is to writing what charity is to the other virtues. Righteousness is worth nothing without the one, and authorship is worth nothing without the other.

Sydney SmithCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, compiled by Josiah H. Gilbert, 1895

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