I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but…

Charlotte Bronte
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I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2016). Villette, p.48, Xist Publishing
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I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2016). Villette, p.48, Xist Publishing

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