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by isabelc 1813 days ago
Fans of Charlotte Bronte may remember:

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.”

- said Lucy Snow in the novel, Villette, by Charlotte Bronte.