"If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom."
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"It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself."
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"Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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"I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading."
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"Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again."
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"I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell."
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"Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'."
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"You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living."
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"It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand."
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"The hearts letter is read in the eyes."
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"Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers."
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"Letters of friendship require no study."
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"Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable"
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"When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants."
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"All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises."
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"Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on."
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"If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!"
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"If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched."
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"I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?"
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