| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 2078 |
| AUTHOR: | Blaise Pascal (162362) |
| QUOTATION: | The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | BLAISE PASCAL, Pensées, The Provincial Letters, provincial letter 16, p. 571 (1941). See also Oratory. |
| SUBJECTS: | Writers and writing |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Blaise Pascal Collection | | |
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