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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
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My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella)
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
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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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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
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