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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.

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
People
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Goodwill
Antagonisms
Known
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Dislikes
Upon
Rays
Specialized
Learn
Rejects
Antagonism
Give
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Colours
Body
Dislike
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Colour
Attribute
Way
Bodies
Absorb

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