On 2022-04-10, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2022 08:17:14 AM gene heskett wrote: >> I think Ben Franklin said it first, First, we get rid of all the lawyers. > > Billy (Shakespeare) said it before Ben. But I would not be surprised to find > that someone said it much earlier than that. > > I once looked into the origin of ~"I wrote you a long letter because I didn't > have time to write a short letter" -- I found sources that attributed it to > Cicero, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was talked about around > the > cavemen's (and women's) campfires. > >
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. Les provinciales (1656), XVI de Blaise Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." (Letter XVI)
