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

Thomas Hardy

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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Evolution Fantasy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Argument Custom Moral Poet
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Distance Dreams Hope Privacy Soul Sun
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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Beautiful Bird Eyes Learning Sing Sweet Terrible
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Happiness Imagination Pain Sleep
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
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
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
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
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
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
I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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Born Fantasy
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Difference Heaven Man Object Religion
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
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Avoid Eyes Pain Path Sound Story

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

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

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