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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Thomas Hardy

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story
It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Humanity Imperfection Sweet Touch
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
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
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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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Drama Experience Happiness Impression Leadership Learning Life Live Placement Subject
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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Couple Love Marriage Relationship
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Constitution Herself Practice Principle Success
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness

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