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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

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Success
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Thomas Hardy
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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Face, Faces
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. – David Gerrold

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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then Ive looked outside and seen people starving to death. – Don Van Vliet

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Its not life or death its a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser. – Bernhard Langer

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. – Carl Hiaasen

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The place is all awave with trees,
Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
Acacias having drunk the lees
Of the night-dew, fain headed,
And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem
The fittest foliage for a dream. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! – Robert Musil

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alone

There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory. – A. H. K. Boyd

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