"I find so many things to fear and so few to hope ..."

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Source : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

Dorothy Osborne

“My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'”
“I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.”
“You are committed to what you confess.”
“That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.”
“I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.”
“Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.”

Source : FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013
“I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.”
“The arts stop society going rotten and mad.”

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