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''Home'' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
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refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
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The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises.
Original:Der Brief ist ein unangemeldeter Besuch, der Briefträger der Vermittler unhöflicher Überfälle.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
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