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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude su

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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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! – Catharine M. Sedgwick

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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

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[Y]our letter—your dear, warm, true-hearted letter — was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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