Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
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