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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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

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

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

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