2 Maccabees 2:32
31. But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.32. Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
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