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Famous quotes containing the words short and/or excerpt:

“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

“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)