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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Thomas Hardy

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
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
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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Death Life Love Myself
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
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
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
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Fall In Love Hide Justice Myself Relationship Reveal Wrong Yourself
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance

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