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the condition of being short
- the best quality a graduation speech can have is brevity
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the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaning
- if brevity is the soul of wit, then that speech wasn't at all witty
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“Brevity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brevity. Accessed 8 Mar. 2021.
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The first known use of brevity was in the 15th century
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