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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good:

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. – E. M. Forster

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

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

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Letters to absence can a voice impart,
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