Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together…

Charlotte Bronte
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ✨ Jane Eyre. Ch. 6. Book by Charlotte Bronte, 1847.
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ✨ Jane Eyre. Ch. 6. Book by Charlotte Bronte, 1847.

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