Famous quotes containing the words letter, mail and/or company:
“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it isI really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And dont know justly what we would be at
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“The mail from Tunis, probably,
An easy Mornings Ride”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in mens company, can only be acquired in womens.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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