Letter 1079: It's human nature that people who stammer end up talking more — they keep going out of embarrassment at their own...

It is the nature of things that those who stammer speak the more; for out of the embarrassment of their failing they affect a flood of words. This example claims me, who have a great impatience for writing, although the eloquence is lacking. For, since two travelers were setting out together at the same time, I did not think it suited to courtesy that a double occasion should be spent upon a single letter. Upon this point there will be a judgment of yours, whether I may more justly be called talkative or assiduous. Farewell.