TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657. npr.org Submitted by jeremyjava t3_1196bgx on February 22, 2023 at 5:55 PM in todayilearned 22 comments 391
jeremyjava OP t1_j9kr5vd wrote on February 22, 2023 at 6:19 PM Reply to comment by jwgriffiths in TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657. by jeremyjava One of the sources of the NPR piece says, Mark Twain who is often connected to this saying did not use it according to the best available research, but one of his tangentially related quotations is given later for your entertainment. Permalink Parent 5
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