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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Lovers
Elizabeth Bowen

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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Argument
Charles Caleb Colton

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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
Alliances
Benjamin Disraeli

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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
Enlightenment
Wayne Dyer

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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Brevity
Tryon Edwards

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A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
Violence
Don Henley

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Anger is a brief lunacy.
Anger
Horace

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Brevity
Horace

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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
Teachers and Teaching
Horace

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Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
Teachers and Teaching
Immermann

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Anger
Walter Savage Landor

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith
H. L. Mencken

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Theology
Christopher Morley

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Law and Lawyers
Mario Puzo

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Speakers and Speaking
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Words
George Santayana

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man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
Uncategorised
William Shakespeare

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.
Peace
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun