Children Quote by Thomas Hardy

““To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...””

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

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“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a…

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“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body…

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