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.
THOMAS HARDYWomen are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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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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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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The 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.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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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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