If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
There must be a mistake," I said. He adjusted his bag on his shoulder. "That's a creative name. What do you shorten it to? Missy?
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.