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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Bless thy simplicity, Tess
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Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
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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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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
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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.
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy