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If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Thomas Hardy

Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Bad One Liner Worst
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
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
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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Feature Tree Voice Wood
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
You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Funny Kiss Ride Sex Yourself
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
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Body Remark Sky Stars Time
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Eat Friendship Music
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
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
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
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Dreams Small Surround
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Listening Man Silence Wonderful
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves

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