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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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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone

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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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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letters

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. – Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," Essays

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Letters

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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Letters

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

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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before its understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I dont have a clue what theyre on about. – Marcus Mumford

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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul. РJulie-Jeanne El̩onore de Lepsinasse

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. – Aristotle

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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