A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspec… - Thomas Hardy

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

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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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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne F. Scott Fitzgerald E. M. Forster Theodore Dreiser George Eliot

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. - Thomas Hardy

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