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Quote by Samuel Johnson
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult li

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson

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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller

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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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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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Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole

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