# Quote — Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd

> Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Book: [Far From The Madding Crowd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/far-from-the-madding-crowd.md)
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> A nice unparticular man.

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