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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
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Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Love
Lasts
Chamber
Last
License
Often
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Bishop
Give
Receive
Appointed
Women
Loving
Officer
May
Case
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Find
Cases
Continuously
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Loved
Bishops

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