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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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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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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Done because we are too many.
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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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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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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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