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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Thomas Hardy

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
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.
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Acceptance Appearance Husband Man Marriage Ordinary Possession Woman
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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Delight Earth Enjoyment Fashion Happiness Light Myself
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
But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Beautiful Symbol
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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Change Exception Surprise Time
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
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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Hands Heart Herself Perfection Woman Work
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
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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Cheating Dog Equality Feeling Heart Human Kind True
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 concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

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