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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte
Age: 38 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 21
Died: 1855
Died: March 31
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Ш. Бронте
Syarŭllotʻŭ Bŭrontʻe
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Шарлотта Бронте
Sharlotta Bronte
Charles Wellesley
Charlotte Bronte
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Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
Tree
Florian Wellesley
Lord Charles Albert
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Mrs. A. B. Nicholls
Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Nature
Stones
Eradicate
Wells
Whose
Weeds
Well
Among
Sad
Heart
Grow
Prejudices
Never
Grows
Weed
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Soil
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Loosened
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Prejudice
Conventionality

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