“Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!”

— Thomas Hardy , book The Mayor of Casterbridge

Source: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Ch. 41

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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