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“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
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