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The quotations of

Thomas Hardy

English novelist and poet

1840–1928

25 quotes, most often on Love, Morality and Marriage.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would!
Jude the Obscure (1895), Part Fifth: At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
- Nature
Growing up brought responsibilities, he found. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. Nature’s logic was too horrid for him to care for. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony.
Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
- Nature

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