I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare…

Charlotte Bronte
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I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Sherri Browning Erwin (2010). Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Bloodsucking Twist, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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