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[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.

Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
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Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Ann Brontë
Anne Bronte
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There is perfect love in heaven!
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Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
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There is always a but in this imperfect world.
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No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
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This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.
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Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.
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Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
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The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
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I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.
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Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
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He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly
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