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  • But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

  • 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 fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.

    Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.49, Cambridge University Press
  • I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

    Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.279, Cambridge University Press
  • Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

    Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.165, Cambridge University Press
  • Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

    Dorothy Osborne (1914). “The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
  • 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 say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.

    Winter   Weather   People  
  • 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 cannot agree.

    Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.184, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653
  • 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 it may be done and not repented afterwards.

    Dorothy Osborne (1903). “The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
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