According to this website:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Twain said something remotely related but this quote is better
attributed to Pascal. However, it also says I can blame the Chicago
Tribune for the misattribution, and I am pleased to do so.
I also have a feeling that people repeat things, so it could also have
been said by any number of people.
Some of the quotes that are randomly sampled for my signature are
gathered from the Internet and of dubious attribution, but I happen to
have just re-read "A Wizard of Earthsea" and I can vouch for today's
quote (or something essentially the same). I forget who said it, but it
pertains to the main plot of that novel where Ged has to defeat an
antagonist described as a "shadow."
-Alan
On 2/4/2022 11:12 AM, John Darrington wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 04:13:28PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain
Do you have a reference for this quote? I have variously seen this phrase
attributed
to Blaise Pascal, Mohandas Gandhi, Antoinne du St. Exupery and George V - but
this is
the first time I've seen Mark Twain as the source.
J'
--
Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
President, Talent Algorithms Inc.
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does
light?
-- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
