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- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his…
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- It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good… — Samuel Beckett
- Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. — Abraham Cahan
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson
- Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of… — Sissela Bok
- Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
- All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell
- A drink is shorter than a tale — Omar Khayyam
- You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found… — Friedrich Schiller