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Quote by Thomas Hardy
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait

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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. – 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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Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. – Thomas Hardy

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