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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
— Ignatius of Loyola
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
— Russell Baker
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