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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.

Thomas Hardy

And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Judgement Ourselves Strong
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
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Better Children Disappoint Game Life Lose Play Possible Worst
You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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Burn Flame Heart Love Myself Passion Woman Yourself
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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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Autumn Past Summer Thinking 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
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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Enough Feeling Happiness Natural Position Social

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.

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