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Quotation from The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal

“because I had no leisure to make it shorter”

Blaise Pascal (spoken by Pascal)

The Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, trans. Thomas M'Crie (1847)

Pascal's famous apology for the length of the sixteenth letter, written in haste.

Citation: "because I had no leisure to make it shorter" — Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, trans. Thomas M'Crie (1847). (id pascal-provincial-letters-q7)

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