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Anne Brontë
“[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë
“If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Anne Brontë
“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

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