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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Moral Reason Wrong
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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Acceptance Destiny Man Woman
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Influence Kindness Strange Temptation Woman
Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Friendship Lucky One Liner
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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Experience Intense Life Measurement
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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Difficult Expression Feeling Language Man Woman
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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Drama Episode Happiness Pain
You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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Believe Capability Childhood Love Myself Nature Possession Protection
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
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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Better Hide Offense Truth
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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Artist Execution Ideas Interest Myself Preference Skill Thinking Weakness Word
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
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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Age Critical Decision Hands Mindset Moments Time
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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Cruelty Different Fate Hope Indulgence Love Obstacle Sad
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Color Creation Eyes Ourselves
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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Death Life Love Myself

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