Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never … - Dorothy Osborne
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never …
- Dorothy Osborne
To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that … - Dorothy Osborne
To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that …
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it? - Dorothy Osborne
What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they canno… - Dorothy Osborne
What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they canno…
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable. - Dorothy Osborne
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
Surfeits kill more than fasting does. - Dorothy Osborne
Surfeits kill more than fasting does.
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortun… - Dorothy Osborne
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortun…
I find so many things to fear and so few to hope. - Dorothy Osborne
I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm. - Dorothy Osborne
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.
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