Quote by Thomas Hardy
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to

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

Other quotes by 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

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Face, Faces
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Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down youd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. – Thomas Hardy

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War
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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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Religion
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Success
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My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. – Alton Brown

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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. – Ben Stein

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Success

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. – Bernard Law Montgomery

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

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Our value is the sum of our values. – Joe Batten

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Self Respect

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And theres almost a sense of entitlement to that. – J. J. Abrams

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I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victorias early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young. – Emily Blunt

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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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