It was amazing, indeed, to find how great a matter the life of the obscure dairy had become to him. And though new love was to be held partly respons… - Thomas Hardy

Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

...the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

"Justice" was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength, they arose, joined hands again, and went on.

"I am sorry to shock you," she said. "But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years."

"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?" — Esdras.