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Jane Austen Novelist
Letters

"And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected."

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Johanna Drucker Artist, scholar
Letters

"It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Letters

"Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
Letters

"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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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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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet
Letters

"In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects."

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