The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but …

Charlotte Bronte
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.258, Penguin
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.258, Penguin

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