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

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Source : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

Dorothy Osborne

#Kindness Quotes #Letters Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.”
“Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.”
“The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.”

Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.88, Macmillan
“I am an Arsenal player and I don't think about anything else. I'm not going to say no to anybody, nor am I going to say yes to anybody. I did not say that I was going to leave Arsenal to go to Barcelona, because equally Barcelona doesn't want me.”
“If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data, since these patients do not then meet the criteria...of the term 'treated'. The longer it takes for completion of the treatment,...the worse the error....”
“The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.”
“Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.”
“If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.”

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