“Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”

— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Variant: If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. I : A Discovery; Gilbert to Rose

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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