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… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
“But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.” — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
