[F]or me 'tis a better-natured and a less fault to believe … - Dorothy Osborne

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[F]or me 'tis a better-natured and a less fault to believe too much than to distrust where there is no cause.

Dorothy Osborne

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Dorothy Osborne, Lady Temple (1627–1695) was an English writer of letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet.

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Alternative Names: Dorothy, Lady Temple

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I am not apt to suspect without just cause, but in earnest if I once find anybody faulty towards me, they lose me for ever; I have forsworn being twice deceived by the same person.

'[T]is a sad thing when all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

All letters, methinks, should be as free and easy as one’s discourse, not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

[F]or me 'tis a better-natured and a less fault to believe too much than to distrust where there is no cause. - Dorothy Osborne

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