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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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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Marriage
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. – Lord Byron

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Letters

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

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Letters

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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Letters

But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Letters

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Recently I heard a wise guy story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. Its an interesting story, but I dont know twenty-five men Id want to invite ta a party. – Joan Crawford

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A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. – Diane Kruger

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I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. – Andre Rieu

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A persons fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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