There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line o…

Thomas Hardy
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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated), p.1161, Delphi Classics
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