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If your wife gives you her heart, you must take it, thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.

— 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.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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

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