Thomas Hardy quote about pleasure from Tess of the d'Urbervilles - You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
 Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). copy citation

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Author Thomas Hardy
Source Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Topic pleasure conversion
Date 1891
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm

Context

“she cried passionately, as she turned away from him to a stile by the wayside, on which she bent herself. «I can't believe in such sudden things! I feel indignant with you for talking to me like this, when you know—when you know what harm you've done me! You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted! Out upon such—I don't believe in you—I hate it!»
«Tess,» he insisted; «don't speak so! It came to me like a jolly new idea! And you don't believe me? What don't you believe?»
«Your conversion.” source

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