No time to make it shorter?

[Shapiro, Fred]

Joel,

If you look in your copy of the YBQ, the Pascal quote is on page 583, with cross-references to similar remarks by Thoreau and Woodrow Wilson.

Fred Shapiro


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Subject: No time to make it shorter?

The following is (I'm told) attributed to Pascal in Bartlett's 16th
edition, but is not in the 14th.

"I'm sorry this is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter."

What does the Yale Book of Quotations say?

Thanks,
Joel

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