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.
THOMAS HARDYThe value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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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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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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