Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

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• Thomas Hardy:

  Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

• Thomas Hardy:

  Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquire

• Thomas Hardy:

  Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

• Thomas Hardy:

  That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

• Thomas Hardy:

  Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

• Thomas Hardy:

  Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

• Henry Fielding:

  A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

• Henry Fielding:

  If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

• Henry Fielding:

  Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to b

• Henry Fielding:

  Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.