"I have been thinking", she continued, still in the tone of… - 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 OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.

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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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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.

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'I will,' said Gabriel.

And she smiled on him again.

"shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all." (All.)

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