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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Trouble
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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Business Novel Poet Sorry
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
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
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

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