English - Novelist | June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
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