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Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

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Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to ...more

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I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerit...more

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Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.

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Good but not religious-good.

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Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexe...more

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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away he...more

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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

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He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first ...more

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At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn...more

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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she en...more

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Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.