"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.“
-Thomas Hardy
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
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