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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

Intelligence Squared

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APPLAUSE Don't Make Me Talk. I Am Not Going To.

I see now from this letter that these were all too well justified. Your luck can all too easily change. And by your own fault you may well find yourself plunged into deepest misery. That is the result of your terrible dissipation, which prevents your being a siduous about anything serious. I hope I shall not survive until misfortune overtakes you and I pray to God to end my days quickly. Since I am no longer of any use to you, and I could not bear to lose my dear child or see her unhappy,. whom I shall love tenderly until I die.

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