The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. - Thomas Hardy

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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

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About Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.

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