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It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

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
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Sharlotta Bronte
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Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
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Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Overcoming
Certainly
Violence
Hate
Overcomes
Best
Heals
Vengeance
Injury
Heal

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