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• Never use one word when a dozen will suffice. -- Paul Herbig
• Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. -- Writing Rule 40
• Never assume malice where stupidity would suffice.
• Never is such a lonely word.
• Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do. -- Johnny Carso
• A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
  -- Chinese proverb...
• People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself
  and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word....
• Nothing is intuitive, in its fullest form.
• Scintillate, scintillate, diminutive luminous mass. [twinkle, twinkle, little star.]