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Thomas Hardy1840–1928

If you are cheerful, and wish to remain so, leave the study of astronomy alone. Of all the sciences, it alone deserves the character of the terrible.

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Two on a Tower (1882), Vol 1, ch. 4 (Swithin St Cleeve speaking to Viviette Constantine)

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