Ocupation: Writer
Life: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
Birthday: November 21
Death: May 30
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
- Voltaire
source: Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].”, p.319
topic: Might, Serious, Should, Pleasantries