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Quote by Horace Walpole
Letters to absence can a voice impart,And lend a tongue when d

Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole

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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. – Horace Walpole

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I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)

SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

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A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend? – Emily Dickinson

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Nature is neutral. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and Im like, Oh my goodness gracious – thats so insane. I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool. – Jordin Sparks

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