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Some folk want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy

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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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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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Business Novel Poet Sorry
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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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
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
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion
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
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
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Better Hide Offense Truth
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
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Live Mental Togetherness
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
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

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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