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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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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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Letters

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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Letters

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. – John Donne

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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

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. – John Steinbeck

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sad

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person. – Brigitte Boisselier

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Trust

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime – responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors – has been removed in itself is a positive development. – Jose Ramos-Horta

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positive