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Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

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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 shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonis...more

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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

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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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We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly ...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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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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This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, becau...more

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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

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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