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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

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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Strange
Women
Tempt
Misplaced
Kindness

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