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The art of saying less and meaning all of it.
means A brief restatement of something longer, keeping the essential points while shedding the rest.
from From Latin summarium, from summa, the top line of a column of figures — literally the sum, the bottom line you actually came for.
Accounting rootsSumma meant the total at a column's top.
Legal cousinSummary judgment skips the trial entirely.
Original sumRomans wrote totals up top, not bottom.