“My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.”
WHO: Evelyn Waugh, English novelist, _letter_, 1966
SPOTTED: In Word Spy, a wonderful word resource for the etymologically inclined
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