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 HARDYI 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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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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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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