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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

1871

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Hardy, Thomas. The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy: with an Appendix Including the Unpublished Passages in the Original Typescripts of the Life of Thomas Hardy. Columbia University Press, 1979.

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Hardy, Thomas. Notebook entry. 12 Feb. 1871.

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