Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen
“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”
— Livy
Book V, sec. 37
History of Rome
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