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• I will make you shorter by the head. -- Elizabeth I
• I write long epigrams, you write nothing. Yours are shorter. -- Martial
• I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
  -- Blaise Pascal...
• I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
  -- Blaise Pascal...
• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you must be at least a foot shorter than them.
• Pardon me gentlemen, for the length of this letter.
  I did not have time to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal...
• If I had had more time, I could have written you a shorter letter. -- Blaise Pascal
• I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.