Bless thy simplicity, Tess Auteur: Thomas Hardy Copy Quote More from Thomas Hardy “Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindne…” “The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gai…” “What a way Oak had, she thought, of enduring things. Boldwood, who seemed so mu…” “There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a w…”