#short time

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. ↗

— Aristotle

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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. ↗

— Chief Joseph

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I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. ↗

— Perry Christie

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