Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters… I could be their leader. – Charlie Brown

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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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My songs are just little letters to me. – Ani Difranco

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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. – Daniel Webster

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