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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Tongue
Moods
Avoid
Pathways
Lips
Grandeur
Ears
Accents
Eye
Pale
Sound
Enter
Pain
Tales
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Come
Mood
Pathway

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