Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage… - Thomas Hardy

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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

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