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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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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
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And none will hear the postmans knock
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Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole

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