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

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I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded…. When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a day. – William S. Burroughs, letter to Mother and Dad, 1959

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

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