Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we cant get out of it if we would. – Thomas Hardy

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we cant get out of it if we would. – Thomas Hardy
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
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