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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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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. – Samuel Johnson

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Hunting
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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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Letters (writing)

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Letters (writing)

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

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Letters (writing)

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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Letters (writing)

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Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. – Henry David Thoreau

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldnt really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. – Johann von Goethe

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Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened. – Suzanne Somers

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