I may do some good before I am dead — be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. - Thomas Hardy

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I may do some good before I am dead — be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

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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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People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.

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She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond’s was; women who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak to them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer.

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