“No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.”

— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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