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On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one proph...more

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...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to th...more

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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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To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form ...more

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage ...more

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage ...more

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Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from th...more

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The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!”“Still, Sue, it is no worse for the wom...more

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And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions, and her lack of in...more

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And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly bel...more

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Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you ...more

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I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. Accor...more

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--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phil...more

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I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens to lots of women; only they submit, and I kick.......more

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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it co...more