“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad", I continued, "if you were a regular black, and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”

— Emily Brontë , book Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

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English novelist and poet 1818–1848

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