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• Truth is shorter than fiction.
• W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic.
  This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the Grecian is the more valued after audibly spelling out some simple Greek word, like _epixoriambikos_....
• Money cannot buy The fuel of love but is excellent kindling.
  To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word intellectual suggests right away A man who's untrue to his wife....
• I will make you shorter by the head.
• Dieting is when the days seem longer and the meals shorter.
• If miniskirts get shorter they wont be allowed any longer.
• I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.
• Is it better to have a leg longer than the other or shorter?
• It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.