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It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

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Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. I shot him dead because-- Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although He thought he

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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

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The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.

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There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third. But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

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Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face.

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If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

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Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

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The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time.

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I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

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I think most of our lives are made up of both things visible and things interior, with a large chunk of them being interior.

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because m...

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The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash'...

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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ...

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And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assur...

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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide throu...

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"I can make you happy," said he to the back of her head, across the bush. "You shall have a piano in a year or two—farmers' wives are gettin...

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"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and ...

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