“To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.”

— Thomas Hardy , book The Return of the Native

Bk. I, ch. 7
The Return of the Native (1878)

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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