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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

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
Sense
Hopeless
Look
Cruel
Wells
Indifference
Well
Obstacles
Looks
Welcome
Satires
Loves
Satire
Fate
Enable
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Indulge

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