The Value of Brevity

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  • Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: 266 words
  • The Ten Commandments: 297 words
  • The Bill of Rights: 463 words
  • A federal directive regulating the price of cabbage: 26,911 words

[ from an old New York Times article ]

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