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brevity (s) (noun), brevities (pl)
1. Shortness, especially as applied to time.
2. Being short in speech or writing; contraction into few words, conciseness, terseness.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, then give it more thought.

—Dennis Roth

If you would focus your words, whether spoken or written, be brief! It is with words as with sunbeams that the more they are condensed, the deeper they penetrate into the realm of people’s thinking.

—John Rayoa
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