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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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Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield

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Time
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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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Truth
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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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Shame
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Other Quotes from
Letters
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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Letters
[Y]our letter—your dear, warm, true-hearted letter — was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Letters

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. – Richard Steele, Spectator

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Letters

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. – Elizabeth Drew

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Letters

Random Quotes

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Last Tournament,” Idylls of the King

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Wise Words

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. – Jean Kerr

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Hypocrisy

Santa is our cultures only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. Its a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and thats a pity. – Chris Van Allsburg

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Christmas

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. – Luigi Pirandello

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Dignity