There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which in…

Thomas Hardy
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated), p.771, Delphi Classics
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