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letter what happens? If you are young, you answer it promptly, instantly--and
mail the thing you have written. At forty what do you do? By that time you
have found out that a letter written in passion is a mistake in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred. - Mark Twain, a Biography An old, cold letter ... makes you wonder how you could ever have got into such a rage about nothing. - Mark Twain, a Biography |
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The most useful and interesting letters we get here from home are from
children seven or eight years old...They write simply and naturally and
without straining for effect. They tell all they know, and stop. The reason I dread writing letters is because I am so apt to get to slinging
wisdom & forget to let up. Thus much precious time is lost. |
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The following quote is often misattributed to Mark Twain: "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter." This quote is by the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal (1623-62), written in a letter to a friend. The original French version was: "Je n'ai fait cette lettre - ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte" |
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