Blaise Pascal: Time and Brevity.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

“• Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), The Provincial Letters, Letter 16, 1657

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By François II Quesnel for Gérard Edelinck, 1691