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Letters Struggle Man World Rest

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

- Anna C. Brackett

Other quotes by Anna C. Brackett


Exercise Action Freedom Will

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

- Anna C. Brackett
Information

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

- Anna C. Brackett
Possessions

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

- Anna C. Brackett
Force

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

- Anna C. Brackett

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I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

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He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

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