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Quotations By Thomas Hardy


Discretion
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.

Emotion
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Family
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. -- Thomas Hardy

War
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.