If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter.
saying, based on a quotze by Blaise Pascal – French mathematician and philosopher, (1623-1662), from “Lettres Provinciales” (1657):
Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
I only made this one (letter) longer because I didn’t have the leisure to make it shorter.
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