Thomas Hardy

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• The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash'...

• 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 ...

• It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because m...

• 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 throu...

• And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assur...

• 'Come hither, Son,' I heard Death say; 'I did not will a grave Should end thy pilgrimage today, But I, too, am a slave!'

• '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 gettin...

• 'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and ...

• Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

• Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. I shot him dead because-- Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although He thought he

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