"If I had more time I would write a shorter letter."
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"Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself."
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"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
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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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"The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity."
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"A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word."
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"Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus."
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"I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . ."
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"Life would split apart without letters."
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"I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon."
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"When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant."
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"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love."
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"Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes"
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"Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair."
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"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."
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"Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable."
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"...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters."
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"Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them."
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"To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters."
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