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Charlotte Brontë, Villette Quotes: I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.
         

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.


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