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Famous Thomas Hardy Quotes
“And yet to every bad there is a worse.”
“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.”
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
“That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.”
“Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.”
“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
“Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
“If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.”
“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”
“The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.”
“Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.”
“Women accept their destiny more readily than men.”
“Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.”
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
“Done because we are too many.”
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”