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• Anything cut to length will be too short.
• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one.
  Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason....
• Take a long walk on a short pier.
• When you get right down to it, in the long run a short cut seldom is.
• Any product cut to length will be too short. Klipstein's Observatio
• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. -- Francesco Petrarch
• Any wire cut to length will be too short. -- Klipstein's Fourth Law of Applied Engineering
• Bad luck is universal. Don't take it personally. -- Solomon Sho
• Any pre-cut equipment is too short. This is specially true of optic fiber cables with expensive connectors at both ends.
  -- Vuilleumier's First Law...