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

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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

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

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.