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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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Sharlotta Bronte
Charles Wellesley
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Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
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Lord Charles Albert
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Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Well
Among
Sad
Heart
Grow
Prejudices
Never
Grows
Weed
Education
Soil
Fertilized
Known
Firm
Loosened
Difficult
Prejudice
Conventionality
Nature
Stones
Eradicate
Wells
Whose
Weeds

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