I think it goes back to socrates. r 

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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 6:03 PM
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: diatessaron/diapente


On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:29 PM, William Samson wrote:

>  Wasn't it Pascal who wrote "Sorry this letter
>   is so long - I didn't have time to make it shorter".


Reverend fathers, my letters were not wont either to be so prolix, or to
follow so closely on one another. Want of time must plead my excuse for
both of these faults. The present letter is a very long one, simply
because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Pascal, Lettres Provinciales XVI, December 4, 1656

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/pascal/letters-c.html#LETTE
R%20XVI



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