People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, … - Joel Chandler Harris

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It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

Joel Chandler Harris

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

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Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

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I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

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Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

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I am in the prime of my senility.

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