“Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”

— Thomas Hardy, book Far from the Madding Crowd

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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