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“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.”

Friendship Letters July Abraham Insipid

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Letters of friendship require no study.”

Friendship Study Letters

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.”

Writing Friendship Hurt Letters Friendly

Author:Brendan Behan

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.”

Needs Littles Friendship Letters Phones Silly Weather Soil Thrive Truthful Phone Calls Cute Friendship Cold Weather Letter Writing Fertile Soil Silly People Wisdom And Friendship Handwritten Letters

Author:Pam Brown

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

Mind Friendship Letters Immortality Letter Writing

Author:Emily Dickinson

“A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.”

Long Matter Friendship Judgment Letters Unanswered

Author:Sophie Irene Loeb

“On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.”

Writing I Can Would Be Friendship Known Pieces Four Fame Letters Mark Germany Midst Concerts Composition Variation Mama December Venice Carnivals Paganini

Author:Niccolo Paganini

“We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936”

Men May Death Dies Women Friendship Loneliness Poet Letters Olivia

Author:William Butler Yeats

“In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.”

Ifs Feelings Desire Friendship Letters Unimportant

Author:Walter Raleigh

“What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.”

Years Wells I Can Age Friendship Bears Prove Female Years Ago Letters Proportion Dozen Pope Arithmetic Forsaken Vex Female Friends

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author