A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, a… - Thomas Hardy

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A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.

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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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Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

I looked up from my writing,
And gave a start to see,
As if rapt in my inditing,
The moon's full gaze on me.

the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative

A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained. - Thomas Hardy

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