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THE GENTLEST ART

A Choice of Letters by
Entertaining Hands

EDITED BY

E. V. LUCAS

AUTHOR OF "A WANDERER IN HOLLAND,"
"A WANDERER IN LONDON,"

ETC., ETC.

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1907

All rights reserved

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As keys do open chests,
So letters open brests.

James Howell

I quite agree with you as to the horrors of correspondence. Correspondences are like small-clothes before the invention of suspenders: it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

Pray do write to me: a few lines soon are better than a

three-decker a month hence.

Edward Fitz Gerald

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