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

Thomas Hardy

All romances end at marriage.
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End Marriage One Liner Romance
Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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Feeling Impression Power Remark Silence Soul Speech
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
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
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Herself Strength Strong Weakness Woman Worst
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
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
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
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
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

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

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