“You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

—  Thomas Hardy, book Far from the Madding Crowd

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English novelist and poet 1840–1928

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