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Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Source: Jane Eyre, ch. 12, 1847.
-- Charlotte Bronte, (Apr 21 1816-1855), English novelist, poet; She was the most successful of the three Bronte sisters; wrote of women's drive for independence in Jane Eyre, 1847.


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