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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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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. – Horace Walpole

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Truth
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones tongue dont move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole

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Age
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A womans best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. – Lawrence Durrell

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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Letters (writing)

And none will hear the postmans knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? – W. H. Auden

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Letters (writing)

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

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Letters (writing)

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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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