Letters Quotes
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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.
Jules Massenet
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Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
Shana Alexander
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.
Sara Paxton
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A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
Walter Tracy
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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.
Sebastian Franck
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The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
Scott McNealy
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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.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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"I don't know where (letters sent by the Beatles to me) are. I have only a couple from George, which I'll never show anyone, but he wrote so many. So did the others. I probably threw them away. You do that when you're young-you don't think of the future.
Astrid Kirchherr
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway
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We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.
Eugene Ormandy
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Ernestine Rose
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To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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No arts, no letters - no society.
Thomas Hobbes
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We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
Clara Jeffery
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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.
Rebecca Makkai
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Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
Eugene Field
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Letters of friendship require no study.
George Washington
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
Lewis Carroll
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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.
Nick Bantock
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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.
Ezra Taft Benson
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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
Virginia Woolf