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Famous quotes containing the word short:

“A cheap price is a short cut to being cheated.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One exhausts what they have to say in a very short time, and then they become as tedious as one’s relations.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Life’s too short for chess.”
—Henry J. Byron (1834–1884)