WIST Quotations

Austen, Jane -- Letter (1798-12-24) to Cassandra Austen

Dave — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:17:47 +0000

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Letter (1798-12-24) to Cassandra Austen
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Adams, John -- Letter (1776-04-28) to Abigail Adams

Dave — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:55:21 +0000

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1776-04-28) to Abigail Adams
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 4, Letter 8, sec. 4 (4.8.4) (55 BC) [tr. Winstedt (Loeb) (1912), 8a]

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

Write me every day about these points and anything else. When you have nothing to write, write and say so.

[De omnibus cotidie scribas. Ubi nihil erit quot scribas id ipsum scirbito.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 4, Letter 8, sec. 4 (4.8.4) (55 BC) [tr. Winstedt (Loeb) (1912), 8a]
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(Source (Latin)). Alternate translation:

Write me word on these points and all others every day. When there is nothing for you to write, write and say so.
[tr. Shuckburgh (1900), 8b]

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
[ed. Harbottle (1906)