Dear Mr. Gibbon,
After having writen your monumental book “Decline and fall of the roman Empire” and having thus spent your whole life in writing that book, now what do you think history really is?
Yours faithfully,
A reader.
Dear Reader,
History is indeed a little more than a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Yours faithfully,
Gibbon.
Dear Sir,
I don’t know. I never advise any one to go to was or to marry. According to a Danish proverb.” A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
Yours faithfully,
Dear Emerson,
What do you think of marriage against the background of your philosophy of the representative Man?
Yours sincerely,
Dear Sir,
Is not marriage an open question, when it has been alleged, from the beginning of time, that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Yours faithfully,
Emerson.
Dear Mr. Lincoln,
Do you think the people have any moral right to bring about revolution?
Yours sincerely,
A Professor of Politics.
Dear Professor,
This country, with its manifold institutions, belongs to those people who inhabit it. Whenever he grow weary of the existing government they exercise their constitutional right of amending it. In the alternative they use their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Yours sincerely,
Abraham Lincoln.
Dear Mrs. Sarah,
In the modern age quantity seems to be more important than quality. What do you think?
Yours faithfully,
Dear Sir,
If a man writes a better book, preaches a better sermon, or makes a better mousetrap than that of his neighbour, through he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Yours faithfully,
Sarah S.B. Yules.