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Some women's love of being loved is insatiable and so, often, is their love of loving and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

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
Women
Loving
Officer
May
Case
Insatiable
Find
Cases
Continuously
Giving
Loved
Bishops
Love
Lasts
Chamber
Last
License
Often
Officers
Bishop
Give
Receive
Appointed

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