"I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I hav… - Thomas Hardy

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

"What are my books but one plea against "man's inhumanity to man" — to woman — and to the lower animals?"

And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the homelier ones whom he ignored.