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And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Thomas Hardy

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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Best Devotion Failure Greatness Kind Man Remember Selfish
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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
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
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Care Deserve Honor Myself People Talent
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
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Beginning Lover Secret Woman
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
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
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Death Goodness Illustration Moral Story Success
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Believe Deal Goodness Reality Strange
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves

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