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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.

— Dorothy Osborne

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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.

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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