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I have no wish to talk nonsense. If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

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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