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Famous quotes containing the words short and/or excerpt:

    “What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,—the eternal laws!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)