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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.

Thomas Hardy

It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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Early Eyes Freedom Touch
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
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
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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Comfortable Force Happiness Marriage Natural People Resistance
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
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
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
So 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.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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

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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