To write a letter, and to have it posted; to get an answer, to read it and burn it; there we have correspondence stated in the simplest terms.[Écrire une lettre et la faire jeter à la poste; recevoir la réponse, la lire et la brûler; voilà la correspondance réduite à sa plus simple expression.]

Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part II. Means of Defence, Interior and Exterior, Meditation XX. Essay on Police, Page 210
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