SPUG: Re: Sept. Meeting: Lightning Strikes SPUG!

[David Dyck]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Michael R. Wolf wrote:

> I think Benjamin Franklin once closed a letter with "Sorry this is so long,
> I didn't have time to make it shorter."

http://www.cyberquotations.com/quotes8.htm.
 I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to
 make it shorter.--Blaise Pascal

  or



Blaise Pascal

     Je n'ai fait plus longue que parce que je n'ai par eu le loisir de
     la faire plus courte.

     variously translated, including

         I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have
         not had the time to make it shorter.

     and

         I am sorry for the length of my letter, but I had not the time
         to write a short one.

	    -- Lettres provinciales, letter 16 (1657)




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