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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Royalty
Thomas Hardy

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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Slang
Thomas Hardy

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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
Swearing
Thomas Hardy

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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
Management
Thomas Hardy

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Contradiction
Thomas Hardy

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Custom
Thomas Hardy

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Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!
Victims
Thomas Hardy

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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Patience
Thomas Hardy

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Some folk want their luck buttered.
Luck
Thomas Hardy

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Silence
Thomas Hardy

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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Heaven
Thomas Hardy

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Surprises
Thomas Hardy

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun