Famous quotes containing the words uncle and/or short:
“Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didnt know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldnt a understood it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any mans power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
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