Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is…

Charlotte Bronte
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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.73, Simon and Schuster
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