Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations,…

Thomas Hardy
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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics), p.131, Diversion Books
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