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Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Dorothy Osborne

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Dorothy Osborne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1627
Born: January 1
Died: 1695
Died: January 1
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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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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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