"I have been thinking", she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more re… - Thomas Hardy
"I have been thinking", she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns."
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.
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