Quote by Sigmund Freud
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – Sigmund Freud

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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. – Sigmund Freud

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of ones dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. – Sigmund Freud

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

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

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[Y]our letter—your dear, warm, true-hearted letter — was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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

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