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Quote by Samuel Butler
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping.

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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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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

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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

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

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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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