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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

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
World
Formidable
Units
Mass
Terrible
Cold
Called
Earth
Accretion
Even
Pitiable

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