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Comment by Y_Y

1 year ago

> Once, at a dinner party, the woman sitting next to him said she bet she could get more than two words out of him. Coolidge then famously responded: "You lose.".

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-mordant-humor-of...

Remind me of:

> Brevity is... wit

(Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington)

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vinnyvichy  1 year ago

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_der_K%C3%BCrze_liegt_die...

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