I Have Made This Letter Longer Than Usual Because I Lack The Time To Make It Shorter.

I Have Made This Letter Longer Than Usual Because I Lack The Time To Make It Shorter.

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I have made this letter longer than usual
because I lack the time to make it shorter.
(Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le
loisir del la faire plus courte.)
-- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
-- French mathematician, physisist, theologian and man of letters.
-- Inventor of the calculating machine 1647, Provincial letters XVI

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