# The Hand of Ethelberta

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-hand-of-ethelberta

## Quotes

> A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

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> Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

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> I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.

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> Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

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> You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!

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> Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.

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