'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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"Alboin Errol", in The Lost Road (1987). Compare this with "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne" by Geoffrey ChaucerJ. R. R. Tolkien
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