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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

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
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Reflection Work
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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Love One Liner Possible Strength Weakness
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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Eyes Love Myself Relationship Yourself
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
All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Bright Ideal Mental Sin
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
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Fire God Home Love Myself Yourself
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
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Alone Himself Move Talk World
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
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
THOMAS HARDY

Bed Death Grave Live Teaching

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

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