If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.Thomas Hardy
Good, but not religious good.
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I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
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Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?
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He made close acquaintance with phenomena he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.
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