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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Anne Bronte

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Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
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West Yorkshire
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I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.
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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 besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.
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You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.
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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
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I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
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I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.
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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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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
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There is always a but in this imperfect world.
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You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
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All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
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But, God knows best, I concluded.
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There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
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How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
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Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
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