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Quote by Thomas Hardy
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my ab

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Thomas Hardy

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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