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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

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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Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
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Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Spring
Bliss
Responsibilities
Hurrah
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Graves
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Brood
Business
Begins
Contain
Ponder
Certain
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