She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
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Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always
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Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.
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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Quoted by Thomas Hardy
Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.
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