You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
THOMAS HARDYMy eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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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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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
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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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