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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
Emily Bronte
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Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
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Thornton
West Yorkshire
Ellis Bell
Emily Jane Brontë
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Emili Bronte
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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