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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

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
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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Fate Man Villain
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
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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
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
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
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Attraction Listening Man Silence Woman
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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Disappoint Fulfillment Hope Leaving Remove
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
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
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
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
To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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Desire Greatness Love Madness Passionate
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

People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.

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People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.

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