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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
Charlotte Bronte
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Charlotte Bronte
Age: 38 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 21
Died: 1855
Died: March 31
Novelist
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Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Ш. Бронте
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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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