The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
("Tess of the D'Urbervilles")
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We fevered our years not thus:Take of Life what it grants, without question!
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Always wanting another man than your own.
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The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
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And blended pulsing life with lives long done,
Till Time seemed fiction, Past and Present one.
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
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Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.
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