"The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter."
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"Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness."
"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."
"Never write a letter while you are angry."
"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."
"Clarity is the politeness of the man of 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."
"letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best."
"A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient."
"Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company."
"What did the letter O say to Q? Dude, your dikk is hanging out."
"Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity."
"A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters."
"Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality."
"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."
"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."
"I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period."
"He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
"The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate."
"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."