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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

Thomas Hardy
Character, Achievement, Done
Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.412, Thomas Hardy
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.