It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.
Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Self-pity shortens your life.
This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.