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The first time I met it many years ago:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’s back.

Interesting! That is several letters longer than:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Interesting for that to be the version you learned/remembered.

Another easy-to-remember fix: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs." Plural "dogs" adds the "s."
I recently saw "… jumped over the sleazy dog", but it's one letter longer than yours.
> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs.

That's what I came here to say. I remember my dad teaching me that version when playing with fountain pen nibs.

You forgot where you were going:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

These are called "pangrams". Here's a fun one that's short and makes sense: Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!
I searched for a set of pangrams when I started learning to touch type. I didn't really care about being short so my favourites were those with more natural words and structures.

    Bright vixens jump, dozy fowl quack.    
    The five boxing wizards jump quickly.    
    Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.    
    Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz.    
    My ex gave pub quiz crowd joyful thanks.    
    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.  
    When zombies arrive, quickly fax judge Pat.   
    Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. (5 words!)   
    My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show.
Here's one to spin a story around:

Cyborg PM junks TV flax whiz. QED.

Quack ex TV PM, why zing fjord lbs?
Nymphs vex, beg quick fjord waltz.
"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."

With bonus comma and period. Objectively the bestest one.