Thomas Hardy
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the d'Ubervilles, p.130, Xist Publishing

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