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Dorothy Osborne Quotes

1627–1695 England

Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627–1695) was an English writer of letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet.

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I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike.

'[T]is a sad thing when all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

All letters, methinks, should be as free and easy as one’s discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

I am not apt to suspect without just cause, but in earnest if I once find anybody faulty towards me, they lose me for ever; I have forsworn being twice deceived by the same person.

[A] real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it.

[F]or me 'tis a better-natured and a less fault to believe too much than to distrust where there is no cause.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dorothy Osborne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.