#shortens

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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A good system shortens the road to the goal. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#good #road #shortens #system

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ↗

— Charles Buxton

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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#ago #born #find #great #grow