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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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Source: Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.196, Princeton University Press
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