Some folk want their luck buttered.
THOMAS HARDYSome women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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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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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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