Re: [Sorry Neil] Wording modification of the The ???no GR, please??? amendement.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
>
> On Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:22:25 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> > I like this changed version indeed much more, thanks a lot for your work
>> > on this! Writing short texts well is almost an art ;-)
>> “The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure
>> to make it shorter.”
>
> Yeah, I had that quote in mind when writing the above, but I wasn't aware
> Pascal said that, I fairly sure I learned in school it was Goethe... not sure
> if in the yard or classroom though :-)
>
>> Blaise Pascal, 1656
>> [1] http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/pascal/letters-c.html
>
> thanks! It's great to learn via -curiosa@l.d.o! :)
>
I always thought this was Mark Twain, it was only searching for the
source that I learned it was Pascal ;-)
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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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