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“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.”
William Shenstone
“We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.”
David Letterman
“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial”
Seneca
“My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.”
Joan Rivers
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters”
Vanna White
“X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name --_Xristos_. If it represented a cross it would stand for St. Andrew, who "testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary.”
Ambrose Bierce
“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”
Mark Twain
“Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.”
Shana Alexander
“Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes”
Cole Porter
