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Letter "C" » Correspondences
«Their correspondence was something like a duet between a tuba and a piccolo.»
«There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
afternoon, afternoons, attended, bored, correspondence, Correspondences, further, pages
«Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
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Mind
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comprehend, conversations, correspondence, Correspondences, elaborate, elaborated, pressure
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
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accord, attributing, characteristic, coincidence, coincidences, conclusive, Correspondences, drastically, frequency, prime, significance, sorts, tendency, too little, underestimate
«The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| Keywords:
comes out, correspondence, Correspondences, does not exist, The Mark, The Mark of
«His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
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correspondence, Correspondences, courtesy, encountered, ended, extravagant, presents, punctilious, somewhat, wedding
«It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.»
«No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| Keywords:
correspondence, Correspondences, revelation, Revelation of, utterance
«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
approximation, correspondence, Correspondences, haunting, impertinent, irrelevant, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, preposterous
«Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.»
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