Quote by William Shenstone
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is th

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. – William Shenstone

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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor mans hut, as well as the palace of his superior. – William Shenstone

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Hope
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone

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Patriotism
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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Letters

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. – Richard Steele, Spectator

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Letters

But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Letters

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Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. – Miguel Angel Ruiz

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Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. – Elissa Melamed

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I have heard people eat most heartily of another mans meat, that is, what they do not pay for. – William Wycherley

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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. – Paul Goodman

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