>That reminds me of a funny story that I read many years ago.
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>I think it's been said that this was the shortest correspondance between two persons. It was between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant.
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>Graham bell sent him a letter and the content was
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>The answer from his assistant was
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>I could mix the persons involved but I'm almost pretty sure <vbg> that I read this somewhere.
I read it the other way around (and with other people): This was an author (Voltaire, I think) who wanted to ask his editor how the sales of his latest book went, so he sent the following message in the letter:
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The editor is said to have answered:
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Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
