My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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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!Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
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Who's in the next room - who I seemed to see Somebody in the dawning passing through, Unknown to me.
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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