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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
And yet to every bad there is a worse.... (more Thomas Hardy quotes)
Apart from his heart (which was buried in the grave of his first wife) Hardy was cremated, and his ashes were placed in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Hardy's novels are set in the partly-real region of Wessex, named after an Anglo-Saxon kingdom covering much the same area. Hardy's Wessex includes the real English counties of Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and Berkshire.
Hardy divided his fiction into three groups, which he called 'Novels of Character and Environment', 'Roma... (more Thomas Hardy trivia)
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