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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
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Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.

 

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

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