You can always use strip_tags to remove the unwanted variables, or your could encode the stuff they have, then decode it on the way out... there are a number of things that you can do for this.
As for the "small" text that you want, you kind of have two options, you can give them a "summary" section that only allows a number of characters, or strip_tags everything and output just plain text for that summary.
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