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.
Dorothy OsborneAll 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 OsborneTo 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 Osborne