They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. Ho… - Thomas Hardy

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They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

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Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.

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They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. - Thomas Hardy

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