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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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)
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A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend? – Emily Dickinson

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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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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)

Or dont you like to write letters. I do because its such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel youve done something. – Ernest Hemingway

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To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

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Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 – Bible

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