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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#deal #five #four #great #great deal

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

— Thomas Hardy

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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#entirely #fulfillment #hope #leaves #never

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ↗

— 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

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

— Thomas Hardy

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