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Quotes from Desperate Remedies — Thomas Hardy

1840–1928 England

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To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience.

Desperate Remedies (1871)

With all, the beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which will make a passing love permanent for ever.

Desperate Remedies (1871)

It is commonly said that no man was ever converted by argument, but there is a single one which will make any Laodicean in England, let him be once love-sick, wear prayer-books and become a zealous Episcopalian – the argument that his sweetheart can be seen from his pew.

Desperate Remedies (1871)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Hardy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.