Like people known rough times, light-heartedness seemed irrational inc — Thomas Hardy, Mayor Casterbridge

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Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly…Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

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