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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

Thomas Hardy

And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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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Age Development Early Friendship Job Man Old Performance Reach Value
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
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
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
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Adventure Dreams Emotion Happiness Universe
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
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
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Life Myself Pieces Prayer
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
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
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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Autumn Past Summer Thinking Time

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