Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics), p.158, Diversion Books
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