I can't bear that they,and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!It is really these opinions that … - Thomas Hardy

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!

Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day — another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.