War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

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.

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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...

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

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

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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.

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.

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...

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead...

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead...

I'm so old they've canceled my blood type.

I'm so old they've canceled my blood type.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.