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

Byron, Lord · Letters · 0 fans >>
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"Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately."

Chesterfield, Lord · Letters · 0 fans >>
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"A letter does not blush."

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"More than kisses letters mingle souls."

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"Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak."

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"How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all."

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"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."

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

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"Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires..."

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