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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

Thomas Hardy

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Love Lover
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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
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
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
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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Difference Fantasy Hands History Love Passion Weakness
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Beginning Better Path Worst
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
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
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Failure Marriage Observation Path People Regular
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
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Distance Man See Woman
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
THOMAS HARDY

Color Creation Eyes Ourselves

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