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 | "A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist ? nothing shields
him from the world"s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,
can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who
has written a letter is stuck with it for all time." | |
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E. B. White
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| "Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them." | |
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James Fallows
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| "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not
had the time to make it shorter. Je n"ai fait celle-ci plus longue que
parce que je n"ai pa eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was
most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that
they need no answer." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages
of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the
joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and
are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and
are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night,
our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural
recesses." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends
absent speak." | |
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John Donne
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| "We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we
destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath
of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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