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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (1820–1849), British novelist, poet. Agnes Grey, ch. 1 (1847).

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