The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the st…

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The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel, p.12, e-artnow
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Always wanting another man than your own. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2012). Jude the Obscure, p.220, Courier Corporation
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By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering. Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then? ✨ Thomas Hard … ▶
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. ✨ 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874) ch. 81

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel, p.12, e-artnow

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