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sharpness

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1. sharpness - Noun

2. Sharpness - Proper noun

Meaning

The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Michel de Montaigne

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nathaniel Hawthorne says, "Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy. Maya Angelou

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. Ali

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness. Flann O'Brien

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