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“It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Believe Heart Persons Has Beens Shows Asks Belief Lost Fear Share Letters Invites Printed Scenery Much Love Americana

Author:Christopher Columbus

“This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.”

“I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.”

Giving Writing Reading Giving Up Letters Rejection Not Giving Up What You Love Bedtime Writers Reading Rejection Letters

Author:Anita Diament

“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”

Want Giving Humans Has Beens Ideas Values Passion Energy History Human Nature Objects Letters Institutions Property Active Consent Roman Empire Value Of Money

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, 'Dear Mr. Benn, will you turn up when you're 17 1/2? We'll give you free food, free clothes, free training, free accommodation, and two shillings, ten pence a day to just kill Germans.' People said, well, if you can have full employment to kill people, why in God's name couldn't you have full employment and good schools, good hospitals, good houses?”

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Author:Tony Benn

“Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.”

Men Giving Character Helping Faces Pay Written Promise Letters Credit Honored Another Man Endorsements

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.”

Giving Real Attention Letters Mail Glances

Author:Judith Martin

“Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."”

Needs Giving Mind Doe Two Today Letters Plus Distraction Twelve Eleven Mind Blowing

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...”

Ifs Giving Should Asks Names Decision Marriage Careers Giving Up Letters Should I Her Beauty Derby

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish... the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round.”

Giving Firsts Victory Fit Letters Rounds Good Friend Emblems Rallying

Author:Victor de Laveleye