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Updated: June 16, 2025

For the others, it often spells liberty and interest and heightened consciousness of self for some years; but the time comes when outraged Nature exacts her vengeance, when middle age abbreviates the youth that was really misspent, and is itself as prematurely followed by a period of decadence grateful neither to its victim nor to anyone else.

C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby - Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles

This is probably the site of the miracle, and may have been included in the territory dependent on Gadara, and so have been rightly described as in 'the country of the Gadarenes. Matthew again abbreviates, omitting many of the most striking and solemn features of the narrative as given by the other two evangelists, and he also diverges from them in mentioning two demoniacs instead of one.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII

This caution abbreviates my letters; but, in general, you can depend on what I tell you. Adieu! He was a man of no ability, civil or military, and not even of much resolution, unless a blind fanaticism for republican principles can be called so.

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II