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    Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men’s deeds and not our thoughts. What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Warm in December, cold in June, you say?”
    “I don’t suppose the water’s changed at all.
    You and I know enough to know it’s warm
    Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm.
    But all the fun’s in how you say a thing.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)