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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.

Thomas Hardy

Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
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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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
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
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
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
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 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
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
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Avoid Evil Frame Impossible
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music

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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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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