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All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
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One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.
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a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it