> see the Mark Twain line about writing a long letter Do you mean Pascal? It was Blaise Pascal who wrote, in 1657, that his letter was longer than usual becaus

> see the Mark Twain line about writing a long letter Do you mean Pascal? It was Blaise Pascal who wrote, in 1657, that his letter was longer than usual because he lacked the time of making it shorter. After looking up the Quote Investigator [] it seems that sentence from Pascal has a long history of being quoted and appropriated by many authors in English; and in 1975 "an article in the “Chicago Tribune” of Illinois about writing postcards attributed a version of the saying to Twain". But the originator is French philosopher and polymath Blaise Pascal ;-) [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/