In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.
万物的安排纵然周详,落实时却常常失当:呼唤很少能招来所盼之人,值得爱的人也很少恰逢适合相爱的时刻。
— Thomas Hardy · Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) · Chapter V —