Charlotte Bronte Quotes

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Charlotte Bronte

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• There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Lovers
  • Egotism
  • Infatuation