Letters Quotations
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| The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. | |||
| - Jane Austen | |||
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| What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. | |||
| - Francis Bacon | |||
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| It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. | |||
| - Jacques Barzun | |||
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| Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. | |||
| - Lord Byron | |||
| One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. | |||
| - Lord Byron | |||
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| A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. | |||
| - Emily Dickinson | |||
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| Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. | |||
| - John Donne | |||
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| It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. | |||
| - Elizabeth Drew | |||
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| I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. | |||
| - Sigmund Freud | |||
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| A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! | |||
| - Douglas Jerrold | |||
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| Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. | |||
| - Lady Bird Johnson | |||
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| In a man's letters his soul lies naked. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
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| I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. | |||
| - D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| Never write a letter while you are angry. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. | |||
| - Richard Steele | |||
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| To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. | |||
| - Phyllis Theroux | |||
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| I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||