“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.” IfsMaySaidBookUsedSpiritAirSocietyOrdinaryDietsAphorismLungs Author:Frances Osborne
“I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.” MaySaidHomePassionNextWorstBearsExtremesFallenFollyHuntingSubmitPenaltiesScornRottenDiscretionDeerExposingPhilipRascals Author:Frances Osborne
