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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that we

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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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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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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