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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Emily Bronte

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Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Ellis Bell
Emily Jane Brontë
Aimili Bolangte
Emili Bronte
Emily Jane Bronte
Ai-mi-li Po-lang-tʻe
Ėmilii︠a︡ Bronte
エ ミ リ ー ブ ロ ン テ
Classic
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Couldn
Loved
Linton
Much
Trough
Years
Puny
Love
Ardor
Eighty

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