Thomas Hardy quote about goodwill from Far from the Madding Crowd - people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
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people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). copy citation

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Author Thomas Hardy
Source Far from the Madding Crowd
Topic goodwill dislike
Date 1874
Language English
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Context

“As usual with decided characters, Bathsheba invariably provoked the criticism of individuals like Henery Fray. Her emblazoned fault was to be too pronounced in her objections, and not sufficiently overt in her likings. We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
Henery continued in a more complaisant mood: "I once hinted my mind to her on a few things, as nearly as a battered frame dared to do so to such a froward piece. You all know, neighbours, what a man I be, and how I come down with my powerful words when my pride is boiling wi' scarn?"” source

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