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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Saturday, 5 May 12 21:34:02

Sudden hopes that were rainbows to the sight proved but mists to the touch.
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Saturday, 5 May 12 21:37:05

Now it is a noticeable fact that we do not much mind what men think of us, or what humiliating secret they discover of our means, parentage, or object, provided that each thinks and acts thereupon in isolation. It is the exchange of ideas about us that we dread most; and the possession by a hundred acquaintances, severally insulated, of the knowledge of our skeleton-closet's whereabouts, is not so distressing to the nerves as a chat over it by a party of half-a-dozen--exclusive depositaries though these may be.
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Saturday, 23 June 12 13:48:37

'You seem a man likely to make a mistake.' 'What's that?' 'To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.'
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Saturday, 23 June 12 13:55:47

I often think, that before I am ready to live, it will be time for me to die.
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Saturday, 23 June 12 14:13:07

'Love is a sowre delight, and sugred griefe, A living death, and ever-dying life.'
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Sunday, 24 June 12 11:11:23

The love of an inconstant man is ten times more ardent than that of a faithful man--that is, while it lasts.'
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Friday, 6 July 12 14:01:34

Fate's nothen beside a woman's schemen!
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Tuesday, 10 July 12 18:36:42

But loving is not done by months, or method, or rule, or nobody would ever have invented such a phrase as "falling in love."
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Thursday, 12 July 12 08:42:22

It may be said that the means most potent for rekindling old love in a maiden's heart are, to see her lover in laughter and good spirits in her despite when the breach has been owing to a slight from herself; when owing to a slight from him, to see him suffering for his own fault.
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Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)
Added on Thursday, 12 July 12 08:43:36

If he is happy in a clear conscience, she blames him; if he is miserable because deeply to blame, she blames herself.