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Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928 / Dorchester / England)
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249 poems of Thomas Hardy
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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make ...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Ethelberta, in The Hand of Ethelberta, ch. 20 (1875).
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''Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Faith, in The Hand of Ethelberta, ch. 2 (1875).
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The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. IV (1874).
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"I can make you happy," said he to the back of her head, across the bush. "You shall have a piano in a year or two—farmers' wives are getting to have pianos now—and I'll practice up the flut...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. IV (1874).
Gabriel Oak proposes to Bathsheba Everdene.
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He had just reached the time of life at which "young" is ceasing to be the prefix of "man" in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine growth, for his intellect and his emotions we...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. I (1874).
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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; with totally d...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. XX (1874).
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''It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. VI (1874).
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Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other's character, and not the best till...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. LVII (1874).
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To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars ...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. II (1874).
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''It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. V (1874).
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