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Famous Quotes By Thomas Hardy

 

Thomas Hardy was a great English novelist and poet. He was born in Dorchester in 1840. Some of his most famous novels were "Far From the Madding Crowd" (1874) and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891). He died in 1928.


A good wife is good, but the best wife is not so good as no wife at all.


What between the poor men I won't have and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness.


He became a very celebrated bankrupt two or three times.


War makes rattling good history: but peace is poor reading - Thomas Hardy


That man's silence is wonderful to listen to - Thomas Hardy






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Money is the root of all evil - and a man needs roots.

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