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What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.

— Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

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I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!

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It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.

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It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.

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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

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