Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the un… - Thomas Hardy

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Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.