Dorothy Osborne Quote

All 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.


letter to William Temple, September 1653


All 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.

All 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.

All 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.

All 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.