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Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise.

A Pair of Blue Eyes · 1872

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Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Hardy, Thomas. "A Pair of Blue Eyes." Tinsley's Magazine, Sept. 1872 - July 1873.

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