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Quotation from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

“They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them.”

Thomas Hardy (spoken by Jude (reporting the Doctor))

Jude the Obscure, Part Sixth, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Thomas Hardy

Jude repeats a physician's view of the child's despair after the family's catastrophe.

Citation: "They seem to see all its terrors before they are old enough to have staying power to resist them." — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part Sixth, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text). (id jude-the-obscure-q5)

Portrait: Thomashardy restored, Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain.

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