Quote by Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stea

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

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

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. – Thomas Hardy

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. – G. K. Chesterton

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. – Virginia Woolf

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