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Ironically all of the source quotes cited in the article are much longer than "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter". I guess it took a ce

Ironically all of the source quotes cited in the article are much longer than "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter". I guess it took a century or two to whittle it down further.

sergio 10y ago
That's not ironic, it's congruent: every quoted person didn't have much time at the moment to make that sentence shorter either.