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

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

如果你想要辛辣，就简明扼要;因为文字就像阳光一样，越浓缩，燃烧得越深。

-- Robert Southey 骚塞