Dorothy Osborne quotes
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“surfeits kill more than fasting does ...”
-- Dorothy OsborneSource : Dorothy Osborne (1914). “The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
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“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 OsborneSource : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.49, Cambridge University Press
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“I find so many things to fear and so few to hope ...”
-- Dorothy OsborneSource : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.279, Cambridge University Press
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“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 ...”
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“Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?”
-- Dorothy OsborneSource : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.165, Cambridge University Press
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“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 OsborneSource : Dorothy Osborne (1903). “The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
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“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 OsborneSource : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.184, Cambridge University Press
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“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 OsborneSource : Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653
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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.”
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“He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.”
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“If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.”
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“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“She who means no mischief does it all.”
Source : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135
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“To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.”
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“I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.”
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“I wish I wasn't eating Cheetos every night. Those are my favorite - I'm addicted to them!”
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