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Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage…

Quote byThomas Hardy · 1840–1928

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4.

English (original)

Love is a possible strength, in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.

— Thomas Hardy

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