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

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

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Customs
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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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Integrity
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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

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Death
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Success is survival. – Leonard Cohen

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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. – Charles de Montesquieu

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Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. – Keith Henson

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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one days insolence. – Elias Canetti

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The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In principle if I could not have a home I wouldnt. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where youre hungry and tired. – Lee Child

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You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am – a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. Its just something that comes natural now. – Tim McGraw

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. – Charles R. Swindoll

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