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"Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail."
"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."
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
"Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic."
"About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort."
"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them."
"I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new."
"Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent."
"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."
"Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail."
"A good face is the best letter of recommendation."
"The lover of letters loves power too."
"As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting."
"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."
"His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty."
"As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better."
"There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine"
"Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will"
"I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it."
"Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then."
