“The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”

— Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mr. Boarham to Helen

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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