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The flavour of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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