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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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud

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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. – Sigmund Freud

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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. – Sigmund Freud

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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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

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It consisted of a half-sheet of letter-paper, folded in the fashion of those days when as yet the envelope was undiscovered… – J.C. Atkinson, “Witch Stories and Witch Antidotes,” Forty Years in a Moorland Pa

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