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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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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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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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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

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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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