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My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
Governess
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Acton Bell
Ann Brontë
Anne Bronte
Ann Bronte
Annie Bronte
Live
Mean
Heart
Long
Dried
Hurry
Thoroughly
Broken

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