Quote#Friendship
This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear…
Quote byAnne Brontë · 1820–1849
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Helen Graham.
English (original)
This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathise with my distresses, but then it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.
— Anne Brontë
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