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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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