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Thomas Hardy

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.
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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
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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Better Hide Offense Truth
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
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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Generosity License Love Woman

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