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

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