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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. - Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. - Thomas Hardy

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. - Thomas Hardy

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. - Thomas Hardy

And yet to every bad there is a worse. - Thomas Hardy

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. - Thomas Hardy

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. - Thomas Hardy

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. - Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. - Thomas Hardy

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. - Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. - Thomas Hardy

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. - Thomas Hardy

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. - Thomas Hardy

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. - Thomas Hardy

Fear is the mother of foresight. - Thomas Hardy

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. - Thomas Hardy

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. - Thomas Hardy

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Thomas Hardy

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