“My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.”

—  Samuel Butler

Making Notes
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

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