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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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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. – 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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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special. – Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Ar

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A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. – Lord Byron

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But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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