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Thomas Hardy

"If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later."

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"If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later."

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"I can't remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it."

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"My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table."

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"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."

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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."

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"If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it's just their behavior."

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"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."

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"Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?"

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"Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!"

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"Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books."

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"To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars."
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"When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover."
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"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
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"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."
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"A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest."
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading."
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