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

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Home
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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud

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

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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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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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To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. – George Washington

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The fewer the words, the better the prayer. – Martin Luther

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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. – John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667

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