Thursday, June 08, 2006

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I have made this a rather long letter because I haven't had time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
- Josh Billings, 1818 - 1885

If you want to discover your true opinion of anybody, observe the impression made on you by the first sight of a letter from him.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 - 1860

Letters are expectation packed in an envelope.
- Shana Alexander

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste.
- William Butler Yeats, 1865 - 1939

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford, 1871 - 1937

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