“Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude.”

—  Anne Brontë , book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIX : The Neighbour; Helen to Walter

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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