If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own co…

Charlotte Bronte
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.61, Penguin
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