Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squan…

Mark Twain
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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. ✨ Mark Twain (1990). Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868, p.183, Univ of California Press
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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. ✨ Mark Twain (1990). Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868, p.183, Univ of California Press

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