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Letters

3.7 · 61 votes · 146 reads

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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

3.5 · 54 votes · 190 reads

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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

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Samuel Johnson

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

3.6 · 63 votes · 115 reads

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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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D. H. Lawrence

WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you

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Samuel Johnson

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

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Henry Miller

AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

4.8 · 46 votes · 194 reads

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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

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Lord Byron

PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

4.6 · 34 votes · 195 reads

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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

3.9 · 30 votes · 169 reads

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

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George Eliot

WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

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More than kisses letters mingle souls.
John Donne
PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century
3.2 · 62 votes · 29 reads
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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
Ernest Hemingway
WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century
4.8 · 24 votes · 122 reads
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Lord Chesterfield
PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century
3.6 · 55 votes · 3 reads
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The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.
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Anonymous
3.9 · 26 votes · 30 reads
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