“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”

—  Anne Brontë , book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert

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