conciseness

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Conciseness in art is a necessity and a grace," he told a younger painter "Cultivate your memory; for nature will never give you more than information.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conciseness, which is an article of faith to them, leads American journalists to invent new words, to forge a vocabulary which lends a most vivid new hue to their argot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now Conciseness is not only to express ourselves in as few Words as we can, but the Excellency of the Language shews itself, if those few Words are composed of few Syllables.

From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William

Conciseness in arrangement is preserved if the general classes of facts are clearly laid down, and are not entangled in a promiscuous manner with the subordinate divisions.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Conciseness and decision are above all things necessary with the sick.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various