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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
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Done because we are too many.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
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I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess? Yes. All like ours? I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted. Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one? A blighted one.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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Always wanting another man than your own.
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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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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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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
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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All romances end at marriage.
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