Lord Chesterfield's Quote - Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reas

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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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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. – Lord Chesterfield

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Take the tone of the company you are in. – Lord Chesterfield

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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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It consisted of a half-sheet of letter-paper, folded in the fashion of those days when as yet the envelope was undiscovered… – J.C. Atkinson, “Witch Stories and Witch Antidotes,” Forty Years in a Moorland Pa

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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – Sigmund Freud

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. – D.H. Lawrence

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