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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

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
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Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
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Cost
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Infatuation
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