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“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“You prefer her faults to other people’s perfection.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park