You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYSo 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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