It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The la…

Ernest Hemingway
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. ✨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961, p.594, Simon and Schuster
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