There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tal…

Thomas Hardy
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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated), p.1070, Delphi Classics
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