“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”

—  Anne Brontë , book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen

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