“they have seem'd to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed winds.”
― The Winter's Tale
― The Winter's Tale
“In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.”
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“Naturally it was thought, for there is nothing more conservative than an English village, that such a man must be in need of assistance.”
― Faithful Unto Death
― Faithful Unto Death
“Emily had at last found her place, and had escaped from the torture of strange, complex modern life.”
― The White Peacock: Romance Novel
― The White Peacock: Romance Novel
Works of Thomas Hardy
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