October 2022

Classification of business (commercial) letters

Business letters can conveniently be classified according to their tone and structure as follows:Information lettersThere are two types of information letters asRoutine as: Special Purpose as:Enquiries CircularsQuotations PersonnelOrders AgenciesPayments TravelInformation letters are those that are aimed primarily at seeking or giving information. They include enquiries and replies; estimates, tenders, quotations and acknowledgments and letters relating

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YouthThe visions of my youth are past too bright, too beautiful to last.BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLENConfidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITTHow happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labour with an age of ease.GOLDSMITH, OLIVERYoung blood must have its course,

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WarThere never was a good war or a bad peace.FRANKLIN, BENJAMINThe quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.TERENCENothing excepts a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEYAs long as war is

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VictoryBe ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.MANN, HORACEThey see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.MARCY, WILLIAM LEARNEDWhich if not victory is yet revenge.MILTON, JOHNThe people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.St. AugustineYou ask, what is our aim? I

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UnityWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.BURKE, EDMUNDPerhaps our name too will be mingled with these.OVIDIn union there is strength.AesopAll for one, one for all, that is our device, is it not?Alexandre DumasWe cannot stand still or slip backwards. We

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TaxationTo please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to bewise, is not given to men.Edmund BurkeThe art of taxation consists is so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.Jean Baptiste

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ScienceGive me somewhere to stand, and I will move the earth.ARCHIMEDESYet it does move. (The earth moves round the sun)GALILEI, GALILIOLogic and metaphysics make us of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.Charls Caleb ColtonScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Abraham LincolnWe

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ReasonMetaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.BRADLEY, FRANCIS HERBERTShe just wore enough for modesty—no more.BUCHANAN, ROBERT WILLIAMSFor every why he had a wherefore.BUTLER, SAMUELHe knew what’s what, and that’s as high As metaphysics wit can fly.BUTLER, SAMUELAll beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decayBut

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QuestionI hate and love. Why I do it, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it and am tortured.CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUSO say! What is that thing called Light, Which I can never enjoy?CIBBER, COLLEYIn an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.RALEIGH, SIR WALTER ALEXANDERWhat

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