"How frail and ephemeral is the material substance……" — Elizabeth Drew
"How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all."
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Elizabeth Drew
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13 Quotes by Elizabeth Drew
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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
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