Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

hurt them; and late pruning, when the

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…

"For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it."

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven.

considered—was flashed upon him without warning or mitigation

caused her to appear a little out of place in the medley

"Well—I'm an outsider to the end of my days!" he sighed after a while. "Now I'll go, my

had induced in his morbid temperament. Moreover