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3 quotes by Dorothy Osborne · clear filters

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

I find I want courage to marry where I do not like

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