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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#am #here #i #i am #i am alone

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#also #been #made #making #miserable

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#away #england #get #good #mistress

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#aged #beautiful #been #grave #her

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#blending #courage #moral #moral courage #physical

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#depends #develop #early #enables #finish

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser. ↗

— Tom Hardy

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