Letters Quotes
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No arts, no letters - no society.
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Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.
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Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
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"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
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Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
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Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
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When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
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Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
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Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
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It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she Eleanor Roosevelt did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
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I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.
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I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
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You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
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I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.
