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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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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilization
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. – Sigmund Freud

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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! – Catharine M. Sedgwick

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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. – Lord Byron

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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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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! – John A. MacDonald

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