There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, whi… - Thomas Hardy

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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

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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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