2 Maccabees 2:31-32

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³¹ For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history:

³² But to pursue brevity of speech, and to avoid nice declarations of things, is to be granted to him that maketh an abridgment.