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Thoreau's Quote

"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]" Henry David Thoreau, Letters to Various Persons tags: conciseness, precision, storytelling, writing
"Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857]" Henry David Thoreau, Letters to Various Persons tags: conciseness, precision, storytelling, writing

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter"
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Franklin's quote

Mr B. FRAN K LI N's things; I suspect that it never was connected with it, but arifes instantaneously from something in the air acted upon by it. For if it was fine enough to come with the eletrical Huid through the body of one perfon, why fhould it ftop on the fkin of another? But I fhal never have done, if I tell you all my con jectures, thoughts, and imaginations, on the nature and operations of this electrical fluid, of little experiments we have try'd. I have already made this paper too long, for which I muft crave pardon, not having now time to make it fhorter. I fhall only add, that as it has been obferved here that fpirits will fire by the electrical fpark in the summer time, without heatinjg them, when Fabrenbeit's thermometer is above 70; so, when colder, if the operator puts a fmall lat bottle of fpirits in his bofom, or a clofe pocket, with the spoon, fome little time before he ufes them, the heat of his body will communicate warmth more than sufficient for the purpose, and relate the variety
Mr B. FRAN K LI N's things; I suspect that it never was connected with it, but arifes instantaneously from something in the air acted upon by it. For if it was fine enough to come with the eletrical Huid through the body of one perfon, why fhould it ftop on the fkin of another? But I fhal never have done, if I tell you all my con jectures, thoughts, and imaginations, on the nature and operations of this electrical fluid, of little experiments we have try'd. I have already made this paper too long, for which I muft crave pardon, not having now time to make it fhorter. I fhall only add, that as it has been obferved here that fpirits will fire by the electrical fpark in the summer time, without heatinjg them, when Fabrenbeit's thermometer is above 70; so, when colder, if the operator puts a fmall lat bottle of fpirits in his bofom, or a clofe pocket, with the spoon, fome little time before he ufes them, the heat of his body will communicate warmth more than sufficient for the purpose, and relate the variety

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter"
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The art of speaking

8 The Art of Speaking. sent the prodigious ftature of a Giant in a fmall picture, painted him lying along in the midft of a Troop of Sa rs, one of which was mnealuring thę iants Thumb with his Thyrfe; inti- mating by that ingenious invention, how vast his Body muft needs be, when so fmall a part of him was to be mea- fured with a Launce. These Inven- tions require much wit, and applica- tion; and therefore it was, that Monsr Pafcal (an Author very famous for his felicity in comprising much in few words) excufed himself wittily for the extravagant length of one of his Let- ters, by faying, he had not time to make it lhorter. IIL. To fgnifie the difference of our Thoughts, e have need of Words of different Orders S we cannot finifh a Picture, nor distinguifh the different ftrokes of 0
8 The Art of Speaking. sent the prodigious ftature of a Giant in a fmall picture, painted him lying along in the midft of a Troop of Sa rs, one of which was mnealuring thę iants Thumb with his Thyrfe; inti- mating by that ingenious invention, how vast his Body muft needs be, when so fmall a part of him was to be mea- fured with a Launce. These Inven- tions require much wit, and applica- tion; and therefore it was, that Monsr Pafcal (an Author very famous for his felicity in comprising much in few words) excufed himself wittily for the extravagant length of one of his Let- ters, by faying, he had not time to make it lhorter. IIL. To fgnifie the difference of our Thoughts, e have need of Words of different Orders S we cannot finifh a Picture, nor distinguifh the different ftrokes of 0

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter"
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