Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed
On 2022-04-10, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, April 08, 2022 08:17:14 AM gene heskett wrote:
>> I think Ben Franklin said it first, First, we get rid of all the lawyers.
>
> Billy (Shakespeare) said it before Ben. But I would not be surprised to find
> that someone said it much earlier than that.
>
> I once looked into the origin of ~"I wrote you a long letter because I didn't
> have time to write a short letter" -- I found sources that attributed it to
> Cicero, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was talked about around the
> cavemen's (and women's) campfires.
>
>
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la
faire plus courte.
Les provinciales (1656), XVI de Blaise Pascal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." (Letter XVI)
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