“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.” ”

— Thomas Hardy

“She's never found peace since she left his arms, and never will again until she's as he is now!”

—Thomas Hardy, from Jude the Obscure

“They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

—Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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