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Robert Southey

"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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