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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess? Yes. All like ours? I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted. Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one? A blighted one.
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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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He wished she knew his impressions but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
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