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• How long is a short story?
• Take a long walk on a short pier.
• I think he's a few bricks short of a whole wall.
• Take it easy, but take it. -- Studs Terkel
• A short speech is often a good speech and certainly has the advantage of being much less able to be a bad speech than a long speech.
  A long speech is often a bad speech precisely because it was not a short speech....
• It's not that life is so short, it's that you're dead for so long.
• Any line, however short, is still too long. -- Sam's Axiom (1)
• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. -- Miguel de Cervante
• How should long girls be courted?" "The same as the short ones.