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"It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended."
Anne BrontëHe cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciatio — Anne Brontë
"He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him."
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë
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Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet. A member of the Brontë literary family, she was the younger sister of Charlotte, Emily, and Branwell. Anne is known for her 1847 novel Agnes Grey and for her 1848 novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first feminist novels.
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"Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?"
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"My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas."
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"A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone."
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