Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reas

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. – Lord Chesterfield

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! – Catharine M. Sedgwick

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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

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What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. – Author Unknown

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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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