If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
THOMAS HARDYThere’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child’s play.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
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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.
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All romances end at marriage.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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