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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! (Quote by - Sir John A. MacDonald)

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. (Quote by - Bob Garfield)

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. (Quote by - Liz Carpenter)

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. (Quote by - Richard Steele, Spectator)

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.(Quote by - William Shenstone)

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)

The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. (Quote by - Henry Tilney)

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. (Quote by - Elizabeth Drew)

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . . (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer Lytton)

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. (Quote by - John Donne)

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. (Quote by - Shana Alexander)

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)

Never write a letter while you are angry. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

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