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"A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it." »Unknown
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"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." »Evan Esar
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read." »Winston Churchill
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." »Robert Frost
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late." »Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them." »H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
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"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days." »Ecclesiastes
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"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days." »Ecclesiastes
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"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." »Margaret Halsey
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"Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God." »Marguerite de Valois
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"Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God." »W. E. Orchard
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." »Diane Ackerman
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"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." »I. F. Stone
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"If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions." »George S. Patton
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