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be short of

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At no moment do I know what I'm talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means. Samuel Beckett

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so. Frances Hardinge

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