“Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.”

— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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