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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Done because we are too many.
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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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.
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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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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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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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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Some women's love of being loved is insatiable and so, often, is their love of loving and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.
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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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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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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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