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From Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy

THE STUFF

"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high 
generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises."

From Chapter LIV, After the Shock

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From Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy

WEAKNESS

"Weakness is doubly weak by being new."

From Particulars of a Twilight

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From Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy

IT MAY

"It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail."

From Departure of Bathsheba -- A Pastoral Tragedy