Brevity is the soul of wit.—William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare and Michael R. Burch
(English Playwright and American Poet)
And while one takes one's literary life into his hands when he attempts to go beyond the Masters, in the spirit of "nothing ventured, nothing gained" please allow me to suggest that:
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
(Michael R. Burch)