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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Name: A Pair of Blue Eyes
Author: Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1873, first serialised between September 1872 and July 1873. It was Hardy's third published novel, and the first not published anonymously upon its first publication.

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

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“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

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“For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), ch. 9

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