Not who you're looking for? Others named Thomas Hardy: English novelist and poet (1840–1928) · British radical politician (1752-1832) · Australian winemaker (1830-1912) · professional rugby league footballer
“To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience.”
“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
“There's reason for ghastliness. Eustacia, you have held my happiness in the hollow of your hand, and like a devil you have dashed it down!”
“'Twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o' place.”
“Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.”
“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
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