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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

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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Writer
Dorchester
Dorset
Nature
Loveliness
Light
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Earth
Fashioned
Love
Aim
Forth
Delight
Less
Enjoy
Enacting

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