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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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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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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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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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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I agree to the conditions, Angel because you know best what my punishment ought to be only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
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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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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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