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Your Quotes for 1 May 2006 - Mail

The "Penny Black" was introduced in England on this day in 1840. It was the first time mail would be delivered for a standard price, and the first time the postage was paid by the sender. On this day in 1873, the first printed post card was issued in the US. So I went hunting for quotes on mail, letters, and postage stamps.

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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