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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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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. – William Shenstone

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Anger
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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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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. – William Shenstone

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Letters
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Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. – Bob Garfield

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Letters

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. – Elizabeth Drew

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Letters

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

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Letters

My songs are just little letters to me. – Ani Difranco

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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do. – Peter McWilliams

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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. – Michel De Certeau

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