He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought …

Thomas Hardy
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He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent. ✨ Far from the Madding Crowd. Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.
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He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent. ✨ Far from the Madding Crowd. Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.

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