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He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. so he remained silent.
-Thomas Hardy
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He Wished She Knew His Impressions; But

Thomas Hardy
He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. so he remained silent.
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