When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not …

Thomas Hardy
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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). A Pair Of Blue Eyes (Annotated Edition), p.300, Jazzybee Verlag
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