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Own Quotes by Thomas Hardy
- A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
- Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
- The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours…
- Always wanting another man than your own.
- Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most…
- I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and…
- My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
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