“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter.”

“If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter.”

— Voltaire

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Written by Voltaire in an over-long letter to a friend, quoted to A. P. Martinich in Philosophical Writing: An Introduction, Note to the Second Edition (1996)

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