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If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.Thomas Hardy
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Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.Thomas Hardy
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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.Thomas Hardy
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.Thomas Hardy
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?Thomas Hardy
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It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the sun, which at this unsettled season shone on the grass with the freshness of an occasional inspector rather than as an accustomed proprietor.Thomas Hardy
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When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.Thomas Hardy
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When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand- she's as good as any other; they'll be all alike in the groundwork; 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.Thomas Hardy
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.Thomas Hardy